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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 is especially horrifying for cowboys?

2. What name does Case see on the Japanese spaceship?

3. Who is starting 'to go'?

4. Why does 3Jane find Riviera boring?

5. What happens to the three Turing police officers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Case tricked in this chapter?

2. How does Case compare Corto to the Tessier-Ashpools?

3. What happens to Molly in this chapter? What will Case do about it?

4. What is the significance of the concrete bunker from the beach?

5. Why does Ashpool kill his wife? How does her death affect the family?

6. Describe Case's "dream sequence."

7. What is the place where Neuromancer trapped Case? What is strange about it?

8. How does Wintermute get Case and Maelcum into the Straylight?

9. How is Straylight described to Case?

10. What happens to the Turing agents?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on the role of prophets in human culture. Be sure to touch upon:

1) Examples of where prophesies have come true, and failed to come true.

2) Whether or not you feel that prophets are valid or credible, with examples.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing the symbiotic relationship that humanity has with technology. Be sure to address:

1) Why man needs machine, and why machine needs man.

2) The advantages of using technology.

3) The dangers of giving too much control of our world to machines.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay arguing either for, or against, human cloning. Be sure to address:

1) Moral and social implications.

2) Beneficial and nefarious uses of the technology.

3) Whether or not you feel human cloning will become commonplace, and why.

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