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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. To which of the following does the Toymaker compare himself?
2. To which of the following does Liz compare Anwar?
3. To which of the following does Anwar compare the Gnome?
4. Which of the following reasons does Anwar posit for not having received email from Issyk-Kulistan?
5. Which of the following does the Toymaker note was the drug tested in his clinical trial?
Short Essay Questions
1. What factors are noted in the decline of higher education prior to the novel?
2. What reasons does Kemal give for labeling MacDonald a coward?
3. What reasons does Anwar give for calling Datka?
4. What does Anwar note is the one unbreakable rule, and why does he break it (188)?
5. What reason does Dorothy give for avoiding a weekday assignation with Liz (272)?
6. What reasons does Anwar note for pitying his fellow inmates in Saughton (186)?
7. How does Anwar characterize the demands of talking to police?
8. How does Liz characterize “the besetting cognitive error of any senior officer confronted by too much data” (217)?
9. What does Liz note as a benefit of her assignment to liaise with the Interpol agent for Babylon?
10. What warnings does MacDonald tacitly offer Liz and Kemal about ATHENA?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Liz early on shows a propensity towards assigning nicknames to her colleagues. What is suggested about her character by that tendency? How is it suggested?
Essay Topic 2
Explicate the significance of the name “Operation Babylon” for the coordinated murder investigations that begin in “LIZ: Snowballing Hell.”
Essay Topic 3
Liz notes that, in her childhood, “Is she a lesbo? was about the second worst thing they could say about anyone” (51). What might be the worst thing they could say? What in the novel supports that assertion? How does it do so?
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