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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 color are the roaches that Rep 2 likes?

2. What color is the medical jacket Lindsay dons?

3. What has come out between Lindsay and Nora?

4. Who is the first to fall in the Midnight Clique?

5. Whose grace and beauty wound Lindsay?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are habitats sacred?

2. Why does Lindsay feel secure in his incognito clothes?

3. Who is Evan Kelland to Lindsay?

4. What kinds of things does Kitsune never tell Lindsay?

5. Why does the Alien's arrival signal the start of peace between the Mechanists and Shapers?

6. Why is Lindsay thrilled when the tape mimics an Investor?

7. What is Wells' main issue with the aliens?

8. Why does it take courage for Lindsay to approach the Nephrine Black Medicals?

9. What does Greta suggest when they arrive back at her suite?

10. What news hits Constantine hard?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Swarm's offer of immortality. How is this offer hard to refuse? What are some potential consequences of immortality? Why must this offer be closely weighed? Would it be an offer you would take, in Dr. Afriel's position? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Lindsay's parting gift to Kitsune. How is this gift more than a little morbid and psychopathic? How could it backfire on Lindsay? What is the problem with giving a being that is hungry for power more and more of it?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the form of currency in the Schismatrix. Why is this form of currency efficient? How is it a trading currency? What are some of the logical issues behind a currency based on energy? Would it be easy to gain a stranglehold on such a market? How or why not?

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