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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. Per the novel, how large a percentage of the population of mathematicians is Jewish?

2. For how much does the protagonist purchase her violin?

3. At what age does the protagonist report beginning to see hallucinations?

4. Which personality assessment had the protagonist sat for in the past?

5. What epistemological position does the protagonist claim?

Short Essay Questions

1. Per the novel, what is a calutron?

2. Why had the protagonist hoped to get into the Coletta facility?

3. In what capacity is the protagonist initially assumed to work at IHES?

4. What compelled the protagonist’s family to move to Wartburg?

5. How does the protagonist purpose to protect the violin she buys?

6. What attitude toward war does the protagonist report?

7. How does the protagonist note arriving at the Kid’s height?

8. Why does the protagonist note having reacted badly to her childhood ophthalmologist?

9. What is implied to have occasioned the interlocutor’s divorce?

10. Why does the protagonist report having little contact with her father’s family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the framing device at work in the novel. How does it function? How do you know?

Essay Topic 2

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Stella Maris? By which groups? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

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