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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 the lighting like in the main fabrication building?

2. Who is Jack?

3. What letters does Jack look up on the internet?

4. What position does Jack's old company want to re-hire him to do?

5. How many windows are in the main fabrication building?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Amanda looks like the day after her trip to the hospital.

2. Describe Mae Chang.

3. Who is Maria?

4. How does Julia act when she is at dinner with Ellen, Jack, and her children?

5. Describe Annie Gerard's personality.

6. List the items Jack has to remove before entering the Xymos facility.

7. Why does one of the PR men for Xymos get out of the helicopter? Why do the other PR men tell him not to?

8. What does Charley do to irritate Ricky shortly after 8 am on Day 6?

9. What dream does Mary describe when she is talking on the phone with Jack?

10. What concerns Jack about the sprinklers turning on the morning of Day 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining how feelings of isolation play a role in Prey. Which characters feel isolated and why? What is unusual to Jack and the other characters about the location of the Xymos facility? Is isolation a good or bad thing in most of the cases in the story? Why? Provide specific examples from the text to support your position.

Essay Topic 2

Several of the characters in Prey are overly concerned with accumulating wealth and success. Eventually these obsessions lead to their downfall. Write an essay explaining how wealth and success play into the lives of Jack, Julia, Ellen, Ricky, and others. Which characters strive the most to be wealthy and successful? Why? Which characters obsess to the point at which these elements become their downfall? Why? What happens to them? Provide specific examples from the text to support your position.

Essay Topic 3

Infidelity plays a major role in the protagonist's life in Prey. Jack thinks that Julia is having an affair from the beginning of the story. He has no concrete evidence and yet he is nearly positive that something strange is going on. Write an essay explaining the reasons why Jack thinks that Julia is having an affair. Provide specific examples from the text to support your position.

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