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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. In which of the following does the author report living?
2. Which of the following does Mirella marry?
3. With which of the following does Chapter 10 of "Anomaly" begin?
4. Which of the following flowers features in Edwin’s family’s garden?
5. In what year is the novel published that Olive is on tour to discuss and promote?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Gaspery know he will encounter Vincent in New York City?
2. How does Olive gloss the flight from Earth to the moon?
3. What is the public reason Edwin spends much time walking after his military service?
4. Why does Gaspery note that the people in New York City are comfortable touching each other when he encounters Vincent there?
5. What clues does Olive have that Gaspery’s magazine assignment is a cover?
6. What favor does Gaspery ask of Ephrem when the Time Institute acts against him?
7. What examples of waking up in a new world does Olive rehearse as she returns to the moon from Earth?
8. In what circumstances does Gaspery meet Vincent in New York City?
9. Why does Talia not remain with Zoey?
10. Gaspery finds the source of a quotation from Olive’s novel while in prison. What is the source?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
A character in the novel remarks that “We knew it was coming” is often true (91). Does the novel substantiate the remark? How or how not?
Essay Topic 2
To what genre other than science fiction might Sea of Tranquility be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does Sea of Tranquility bear as much out?
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