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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. What group is responsible for the hacker?
2. What does Titus say when Violet asks what they should do?
3. What is the poem on page 94 about?
4. What does Titus think Link's body slams with the girls show?
5. How does Titus feel about who receives the feed information?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do you think happened in 'Nudging'? Was Titus dreaming, or were the police or the hacker group sifting through his feed?
2. Already in the story to this point, it is clear that Titus and Violet are beginning to have a relationship. Describe how the author has already implied this in the novel.
3. Explain the girl's theory of the face grid.
4. Describe the television show "based on a true story" advertised at the end of 'The Nose Grid'.
5. 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?
6. Explain why Calista, Marty, Titus, and Link can get into college parties.
7. Why does Titus claim the moon is boring and 'sucky'?
8. Titus is freely willing to trade mega corporations his personal information and allow them to control him if it means he gets everything he wants. Does this seem to be a good deal to you?
9. Describe how the teenagers are attacked.
10. At the party, Titus' feed reports that the president is making a speech. Describe the content of the speech, and your reaction to it.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
M.T. Anderson makes a strong argument against consumerism in the novel, as his characters find themselves mere puppets to economic materialism. Choose two examples of anti consumerism in the novel, and discuss them. What is the example? How does it argue against consumerism? What is M.T. Anderson trying to say about consumerism? What is your opinion of the portrayal of consumerism in the novel?
Essay Topic 2
In the novel, two different parenting styles are presented, those of Titus' parents and that of Violet's father. Compare and contrast these styles. How are they similar? How are they different? What effect do they have on the teenagers? Do you think they are partially response for what happens in the novel? Why or why not? What do you think the author is saying about the effect of parental influence on children?
Essay Topic 3
"Feed" has been labeled by some as an ironic satire. How does the author use satire to make points in the novel? How does he use irony? Do you feel this method is successful, in this case? Why or why not? Overall, what do you think Anderson is saying about our relationship to technology, media, and consumerism? Does his use of satire allow this point to be made convincingly? Why or why not?
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