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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. Spirals: What is unique about God in this afterlife?

2. The Cast: What did the dream actors do at one point?

3. Scales: What happens to God if man dies?

4. Great Expectations: What happens to people's computerized afterlives?

5. Giantess: What is the princely looking man?

Short Essay Questions

1. Perpetuity: Why does God treat sinners so well in this afterlife?

2. Descent of Species: What does the human-turned-horse realize right before he can no longer think?

3. Oz: What does God say is the true measure of bravery?

4. The Cast: As you live your life, all of the people in the background of your life are actors. They are those in the afterlife who must play "roles" in your life. However, not every actor is happy being a character in your life. Why are they so dissatisfied?

5. Mirrors: In this story death is a two part process. The first death comes when a person takes their final breath, but the second part does not come until later. What kills the person the second time?

6. Distance: Everyone in this afterlife is allowed to ask the Creator one question. One man asks why God keeps himself separate from man. What is God's answer?

7. Adhesion: What is the adhesive (alluded to in the title) that holds humans together in this story?

8. Great Expectations: What doe people expect in this afterlife?

9. Missing: How does God being a married couple become a problem in this afterlife?

10. The Unnatural: Why do people begin to think that death refers to the death of motivation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Scales:

In this afterlife the reader finds that man is just part of the biology of God. Humans are basically the cells that make up God's organs. As they destroy themselves and others, they also destroy God.

How does the story of God and Man in this afterlife mirror the real life relationship between Man and the earth? Present three or four ways in which the earth (God) is being destroyed by Man's actions. Do you think the earth would be as wonderful as it is now if Man was not a part of it? Why or why not?

Do you agree with God's conclusion in this story: Everything creates itself upon the backs of smaller entities which will ultimately destroy the original entity.

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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