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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. To which of the following does the interlocutor compare the Kid?

2. In what year is the protagonist admitted to Stella Maris?

3. To what kind of athlete does the protagonist compare the Kid?

4. With which of the following works does the protagonist engage?

5. In which city is Stella Maris?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the interlocutor remark that it is an oddity to claim Oppenheimer was stupid?

3. What, per the novel, is Gabelsberger?

4. How does the protagonist argue that the Stanford-Binet test is racist?

5. How does the protagonist explain the decision to commit herself, rather than to be committed?

6. What attitude toward war does the protagonist report?

7. How does the protagonist explain Grothendieck’s activism?

8. What is the significance of the Fields Medal?

9. How does the protagonist explain her affinity for mental health inpatients?

10. Why did the protagonist’s father hide his first marriage?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assuming that Stella Maris should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Consider adapting Stella Maris into another medium. What medium would be most appropriate for the novel’s adaptation? What in the novel and what qualities of the medium suggest that appropriateness? How do they do so?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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