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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 are ideas?

2. What was Sarah thinking?

3. Why did Evans have to go over everything several times?

4. Which guy does Evans find?

5. What is the population of Auroraville?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the frustration Drake evinced perfectly understandable?

2. What is the purpose of Hoffman's research?

3. How did Morton fake his own death?

4. Why wasn't Professor Hoffman welcome at the conference?

5. What did the studies on scientific bias find?

6. In what ways was Peter trying to identify George Morton's body? Why couldn't he?

7. Why was Ted Bradley going with Evans to identify Morton instead of Sarah?

8. Why did Ted believe that all people should live in villages?

9. What happened in the fall of 1989?

10. What are burns?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you think the aim of eco-terrorism is? In what ways are eco-terrorists actually present in our world? Explain at least one documented case in which someone did something that caused the death or serious injury of someone working in an industrial industry.

Essay Topic 2

Examine the character of Peter Evans. How is he a dynamic character? What is the impetus for his change of heart regarding environmental issues? What does this say for his intellectual standpoint? What do you think his psychological profiling would be? What kind of friend would he be, judging by his actions in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Compare the fictional organization NERF to the real organization, ELF. How does the author spin the perspective of the reader from admiration of the cause and dedication of NERF to such a discontent radiation at the end of the novel? How is this change of view imperative to the progression of the story?

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