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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Titus discover they are in 'College Try'?

2. What does Marty suggest as an alternative to being drunk?

3. When Loga comes to visit, what does she do as she talks to her friends?

4. What was a popular fashion from LA that Titus and Violet discuss?

5. What group is responsible for the hacker?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how you perceive the teenagers by this point in the novel.

2. Explain why Calista, Marty, Titus, and Link can get into college parties.

3. Titus reports that "everyone is supersmart now", because everyone can look anything up instantly. Based on what you have seen in the novel, do you agree that everyone is intelligent?

4. Explain the text within these chapters that is in italics. What are they, and what is your impression, thus far, of a feed?

5. Discuss the conversation in 'Dead Language' about writing, and what the conversation implies.

6. Why does Titus claim the moon is boring and 'sucky'?

7. What does the text of 'Awake' indicate about how much the teenagers rely on the feed?

8. At the party, Titus' feed reports that the president is making a speech. Describe the content of the speech, and your reaction to it.

9. Titus mentions they will be offline for a while, so the police can pull off information to use against the hacker. Do you think it would be fair to pull data from a computer in your brain to use, without your express permission?

10. Titus mentions the lack of need for a picture like the one he sees in the hospital. What does this say about Titus' imagination?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Violet's character is unique in the novel, in that she is a traditionalist, whereas Titus is not. Compare and contrast Violet's character with those of Titus and his friends. How is she similar? How is she different? What are these differences? Why do you think such differences exist? What does this say about the effect of the feed and of social class on the characters in the book?

Essay Topic 2

The language used by the author in the novel is definitely different than in other novels. What do you think the author was trying to achieve with this language? Do you think the language helps convey the concepts of teenage life, or do you think it detracts from the novel?

Essay Topic 3

A strong theme running through the novel is the danger of a strong reliance of technology, and what can happen to any society that is fed information, as opposed to a society who freely seeks information. Choose three examples in the novel where a heavy reliance on the technology of the feed is detrimental to society. Be sure to list not only the example, but also explain why that example shows a detrimental situation for society. How could that example be different if the society was one in which information had to be obtained, instead of being fed to consumers?

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