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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. Dave bit ____________.

2. When Alex and Jamie return to their car, a security guard is doing what?

3. Mr. Bond is meeting with a client and is told that the client is looking for a unique gift for whom?

4. Gerard then finds a place where what sort of fruit is growing?

5. Jamie and Dave leave for school and Dolly mistakes Jamie for whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How and why do Henry and Lynn's attitudes about having Dave in their home seem to reverse in this section?

2. What major problem regarding Burnet's cells does Rick have in this section and what could that mean later on?

3. Explain how Alex and her son escaped from Vasco.

4. Do you agree or disagree with Ellis Levine wanting to sue Josh for his mother's Alzheimer's symptoms?

5. Who, it turns out, was actually responsible for destroying BioGen and contaminating the cell line and why? What is the outcome?

6. Dave fits in well with the Kendall family, but it does not take long before he realizes that he is different from everyone else. Lynn tries to make him feel better, but has difficulty knowing how to treat him. How might you deal with the situation in Lynn's place?

7. How did Alex's father try to warn Alex of the situation and what objects did he send her to help?

8. Rick Diehl's lawyers tell him that he owns the Burnet cell line, therefore he has a right to take it from any source. Since Frank Burnet's children and grandchildren have the same cells, they technically are in possession of stolen property. Do you agree with that assessment?

9. If you were Lynn Kendall, Henry's wife, would you put up with Henry's bringing the chimpanzee hybrid home?

10. Explain the interactions between Stan Milgram and Gerard in this section and Stan's unusual reaction to Gerard.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Stealing is a key theme of the book.

Part 1: Explain, in detail, three examples from the book of things or ideas that were stolen. What were the reasons behind those thefts?

Part 2: In your opinion, is stealing ever right or ever necessary? Why or why not? Use examples from both the book and life to illustrate your point.

Essay Topic 2

When Marty Roberts discovers that Mrs. Weller might ahve poisoned her husband, he suggests that she have the body cremated.

Part 1: Explain how cremation would help both Mrs. Weller and Marty Roberts.

Part 2: Explain how the cremation backfired and what Marty did about it.

Part 3: Knowing that Mrs. Weller killed her husband, if you were in Marty Roberts' place, what would you do about it and why?

Essay Topic 3

A central topic of the book is animal experimentation. Answer the following questions comparing Gerard's case to Dave's:

1. Since breeding a chimpanzee with a man can be potentially dangerous, do you feel that Henry should not have experimented with an embryo to create Dave? Why or why not?

2. Since giving Gerard, a parrot, super intelligence does not seem outwardly dangerous, does that make his case more acceptable than Dave's? Use several examples from the story and real life to explain your opinion.

3. Do you feel that Gerard, Dave, neither or both should be considered property? Does heightened intelligence automatically indicate that they should be considered intelligent beings in charge of their own lives, or are they property, since they were the result of lab experiments?

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