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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 Enzo live?

2. What does Enzo often call his kentuki?

3. What does the kentuki tell Robin that makes her very upset?

4. Why does Enzo get a kentuki?

5. What does Enzo's kentuki look like?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the limitations of a kentuki dweller communicating with its keeper?

2. How does Emilia start to feel about her keeper, Eva?

3. Why does Emilia's son set her up as a dweller?

4. Why is Robin uncomfortable with what her friends are doing in front of the kentuki?

5. How does Alina feel about Sven, in general?

6. Why does Jean-Claude cut Cheng Shi-Xu's connection to his kentuki?

7. What big event has just happened in Marvin's life when he becomes a dweller and how does he feel about it?

8. What does Enzo think Mister, his kentuki, helps him with?

9. How does Cheng Shi-Xu establish a relationship with Taolin?

10. What does Robin do to communicate with the kentuki, and how does she feel about coming up with this idea?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Alina's relationship with the kentuki, Colonel Sanders, begin to change once Sven, her artist boyfriend, starts taking the kentuki to work with him? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Emilia's experiences as a kentuki dweller begin to affect her relationship with her son, who bought her the connection as a gift? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How do the circumstances surrounding Cheng Shi-Xu's forced kentuki connection severance illustrate some of the potentially violent real-life and real-world consequences of communications between dwellers and keepers, or even between two dwellers who communicate in the real world? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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