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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. How did women feel as a result of having time outside of the home?

2. What is Nancy's ideal life?

3. What does Charlie think the creatures must be a result of?

4. Is the tension created in her marriage enough to silence Nancy?

5. How does Nancy feel about Charlie's blase attitude?

Short Essay Questions

1. What made the lizards leave their home in the sea?

2. What happens to the lizards as a jet flies overhead?

3. Describe the act of shaking hands between the lizards and the humans.

4. What would Charlie like to do during retirement as opposed to Nancy?

5. How do Sarah and Charlie react to the exposure of Nancy's breasts?

6. What is amazing to Leslie and Sarah about human child-rearing?

7. How does Nancy's tone regarding Charlie's role as a husband and father affect him?

8. How does Leslie react to Charlie's question of Sarah?

9. Describe what happens during and as a result of the lizards approaching?

10. What do Charlie and Nancy hope their submissive gesture will do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how the role of Charlie mirrors the male role in the Women's Liberation Movement of the 1970s.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the characteristics of Charlie and Nancy's marriage that create the most tension. How is that tension symbolic of evolution?

Essay Topic 3

Describe how the elements of the setting (the jets, the ocean) parallel evolution.

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