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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 does Richard hear Leslie saying to him in Chapter 17?

2. What happens when Mashara dies?

3. What are Leslie and Richard celebrating at the beginning of Chapter 19?

4. What style jacket does the line-boy wear?

5. Who is Leslie crying about at the beginning of Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Air Games?

2. What does Pye tell Leslie and Richard is the reason she left them to fly alone?

3. Who is Marshara?

4. What does Richard call Linda's planet?

5. What does Richard tell Dave, the line-boy, at Santa Monica airport about the Seabird?

6. What does Lorraine encourage Dave to do in these last months of his life?

7. As Richard's alternate self, how is Krys described?

8. Describe Linda's competitive nature.

9. What do Leslie and Richard remember that Pye told them about guiding themselves home?

10. Describe the setting of the wilderness planet.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of violence in this novel. Does Richard have past lifetimes of living in a violent way? How so? In what ways has he evolved?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Leslie's experience in the afterlife. Who does she see there and why is it important that she has the opportunity to talk with them?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the importance of Pye's character in this novel. What role does she play and what do Richard and Leslie think of her? How do they feel about flying without her?

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