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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 can Lindsay not help but do after Gomez leaves?

2. What is considered Paradise?

3. What no longer startles Spider Rose?

4. What do the Terrans want?

5. Who had killed Nikolai's wife?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Dr. Afriel's mission?

4. For what reason does the Mechanist woman propose marriage?

5. What interesting information does Lindsay find out about Wellspring?

6. How is the killing of the people originally justified?

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

8. What is unique about "Fuzzy"?

9. What has happened to Lindsay?

10. Who had been the previous occupant of the ship and what had happened to it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the Investors attachment to their "pet." How does this go against the knowledge previously offered about the Investors? What does this suggest about their social system? How does this make them more human-like?

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