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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. ________ uses upsetting images of houses taken from dreams as aids in teaching people how to destroy themselves while sleeping.

2. ________ kills itself in remote areas, and the debris settles in piles on the grass.

3. First ________ is a section which describes the replacement of wild growth with cultivated flowers in a prison.

4. A brother is built from _________, much in the same way that air is built from particles, according to the book.

5. Snoring can be corrected by filling the slumbering person with cool _________, according to the first section of the book.

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when one of the family members is able to escape from the predicament?

2. What is the problem with the flaxen tree tools that can create angels, according to the author in this book?

3. What happens when it's a child that wants to absolve the father, according to the author?

4. Some of the foods evolved into garments with what sorts of names, according to the book's content?

5. What does the author give as the definition of a shirt of noise?

6. What is the process in which the electricity in the house can be restored in order to power up appliances?

7. Within a piece of experimental fiction, what are some of the traditional conventions that are not used?

8. What is the process that is described in First Green?

9. What happens to the flier that is landing on the floating island of the Gods?

10. What is the point that is made about the prison publishing industry, according to the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A sleep collaboration seems to be a group that wants people to sleep until they chase away the bad things in their lives.

Part 1: How would you define the idea of a sleep collaboration?

Part 2: Why do you think a sleep collaboration might be necessary?

Part 3: Do you think you could be a part of a sleep collaboration?

Essay Topic 2

The violence the author includes seems to be used to shock the reader, rather than to add to the book's strength.

Part 1: Is there ever a place for violence in a book? What purpose can it serve?

Part 2: How do you feel about the section on a family witnessing an intruder coming into the home and then killing themselves?

Part 3: Do you think that the author has a personal experience with an intruder committing suicide?

Essay Topic 3

The Ben Marcus is a false map made of skin, according to the book's description.

Part 1: Why do you think the Ben Marcus is a false map made of skin?

Part 2: Can a false map be made to be true or is it unchangeable?

Part 3: How do you think a false map can still be useful in life?

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