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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. Great Expectations: People in this afterlife can?
2. Egalitaire: This god is:
3. Great Expectations: The afterlife in this story is?
4. Mirrors: What does the first death feel like?
5. Reins: Who runs this afterlife?
Short Essay Questions
1. Oz: Who gets to see God in this story?
2. Reins: What does God have in common with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi?
3. Descent of Species: What does the human-turned-horse realize right before he can no longer think?
4. Great Expectations: What doe people expect in this afterlife?
5. Missing: How does God being a married couple become a problem in this afterlife?
6. Egalitaire: God created life to be good and bad, but then had a problem creating a way to judge people in the afterlife. Why is that?
7. Mary: What disappoints God the most about his relationship with humans?
8. Great Expectations: In this story the people who create and program afterlives are basically selling a false product, though not intentionally. How is it that people are mistaken in their understanding of the afterlife?
9. Missing: Why is the dispute over God's gender irrelevant in this story?
10. Giantess: What happened as a result of the princely man's attempt to communicate with the Giantess?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Quantum:
In this afterlife, everything exists in all possible states at the same time.
1) Why would the afterlife be set up this way?
2) Do you think the people in the afterlife are happy? Why or why not?
3) How would you fix this afterlife to make it more manageable?
4) This afterlife is based on the principles of Quantum physics. Therefore, it really could be possible for all things to be happening at one time. What do you think about this idea?
Essay Topic 2
Narcissus:
The Cartographers have created man to help them map the earth. Man is equipped with cameras with which to view the terrain and bring images back to the Cartographers in the afterlife. But man ends up disappointing their creators. How does man disappoint the Cartographers? Why is man more interested in other people than in the earth? If this were a real scenario, do you think it would really happen this way? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
The Unnatural:
The Unnatural part of this story is the absence of death. The reader is shown a world in which death is not a fear and where people will go to great lengths to reinsert death into life. Can you imagine a world in which there is no death? What would that world be like? Do you think people would wish to commit suicide and kill others? Why or why not? What do you think gives life meaning? Does death give meaning to life? Why or why not?
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