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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 36 begin?

2. What year is noted on the silver dollar Adesh produces?

3. With which of the following does Chapter 25 begin?

4. Which of the following does Gareth buy after his father’s funeral?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What, per the novel, is sundowning?

2. How does Gwendy report regarding the Vice President?

3. What objections does Gareth voice to the suggested inspiration for the space station’s shape?

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

5. What demonstration does Adesh give with his bugs?

6. What fate is posited for the person whose cell phone footage Charlotte sends to Gwendy?

7. What travel to Maine does Gareth note having undertaken?

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

9. What information does Charlotte provide in response to Gwendy’s appended query?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are two authors for the book. Is it possible to tell what parts are composed by one author or the other? How so? Or, if it is not, what serves to unify the authorial voice throughout, and how?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Notably, the puzzle box has buttons only for six continents. What significance accrues to the exclusion of Antarctica from the box? How does it accrue?

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