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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 tagline does the fourth Archangel movie carry?

2. What sobriquet is applied to Addison Graves?

3. To which of the following does Marian compare Barclay?

4. Which of the following does Jones have as a tattoo?

5. Which company does Hugo note is underwriting the film for which he recruits Hadley?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the term “great circle” defined?

2. What is Marx’s primary observation about flight?

3. What reasons does Hugo cite for asking Hadley not to have a meltdown?

4. How does Hadley describe the feeling of confronting choices at college?

5. When her father asks what he could have done to help her, what reply does Annabel make?

6. How does Hadley describe glowworms?

7. For what does Marian grieve after her first flight to Vancouver?

8. In what hiding places does Marian secret money?

9. How does Stanley hide his alcohol production?

10. How does the novel define the term “vrille” (187)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. How might the novel be sectioned off other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?

Essay Topic 2

Which of the two focal characters, Marian or Hadley, is the more important in the novel? What in the novel suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

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