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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 what month does Gaspery last visit Edwin?
2. When does Olive’s husband typically end work?
3. In which of the following cities does Olive note having stopped on her book tour?
4. Which of the following does Gaspery recall chasing?
5. Which of the following flowers features in Edwin’s family’s garden?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Talia not remain with Zoey?
2. For what reasons does Olive regret having abandoned her suitcase for her return trip to the moon?
3. What favor does Gaspery ask of Ephrem when the Time Institute acts against him?
4. What examples of waking up in a new world does Olive rehearse as she returns to the moon from Earth?
5. What is the actual reason Edwin spends much time walking after his military service?
6. Gaspery finds the source of a quotation from Olive’s novel while in prison. What is the source?
7. What reason is given for the exhaustion of meeting via hologram?
8. What objections to forest sounds does Gaspery note?
9. What admonition does Gaspery leave with Edwin about disclosing information regarding the anomaly?
10. What reason for the popularity of postapocalyptic literature does Olive arrive at?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.
Essay Topic 2
Similarly, there are issues of differing formatting throughout the text. What function do the shifts in the text’s formatting serve, and how do those functions become clear?
Essay Topic 3
At a dinner party early in the novel, Edwin inveighs against British colonial practice. For it, he is sent away from his home, although he continues to be supported by his family. In all, what attitude toward colonial practice does the novels present? How does it do so?
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