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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. With which of the following does Chapter 35 begin?

2. With which of the following does Chapter 40 begin?

3. How many passengers are in the car that runs down Gwendy’s late husband?

4. For which newspaper was Gwendy writing when she became unable to ignore her symptoms?

5. For which of the following does Gwendy mistake Gareth’s name?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gwendy perceive the knock at her door to summon her to her mental assessment on the space station?

2. What, per the novel, is sundowning?

3. What reason does Gwendy note for believing Gareth’s story about meeting Bobby?

4. To what does Gwendy attribute the origin of her mental condition?

5. What does Gwendy describe as “the biggest miracle of all” (296)?

6. What technique does Gwendy learn to negotiate her mental lapses?

7. In what ways does Gwendy perceive the space station like a haunted building in a movie?

8. Why does Adesh report his conversations with other flight crew members to Gwendy?

9. Of what does Gwendy dream on her fourth night on the space station?

10. How is the subject of interrogation at Derry interrogated?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of Gwendy’s Final Task. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

What is the function of the back matter in the text? How is that function achieved?

Essay Topic 3

Sources attest to the presence of Gwendy’s Final Task on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

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