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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 cat's name?

2. What is Pongpianskul trying to do?

3. Whose voice does Dr. Afriel hear?

4. Why doesn't Lindsay join them?

5. Who is Landau's closest friend?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mirasol view the orbiting city? Why does she feel this way?

2. Why is the Queen's departure the death knell for CK?

3. What does the Presence reveal itself to be and what does it want with its existence?

4. What makes it clear that the Investors hadn't intended to trade their pet?

5. Why isn't intelligence a survival trait?

6. What is unique about "Fuzzy"?

7. How has Spider Rose's pet helped her overcome issues?

8. What has Landau been waiting for, and why did he have to wait?

9. Why is winter the season for pruning the sunken gardens?

10. What has happened to Lindsay?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Lindsay's initial lack of desire for going in for treatment for aging. What is he afraid to lose? Do these fears have merit? Why or why not? What could Lindsay stand to gain?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the Investors and the unity that formed against them. How is this unity rallied and agreed upon? What is the catalyst, and how is this evident to the reader? What would be required for the Investors to become the primary political force? Would this occur? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Lindsay's relationships throughout the novel. What is interesting to note about each of them? What relationship lasts the longest, in the course of the novel and in years elapsed? Why do you think that is?

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