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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. What drive of Lady Mac is used to accelerate out of danger at forty-two gees?

2. When Lady Mac arrives at the star system containing the ship Beezling, what is also contained in the ship that is important?

3. When Quinn reaches the asteroid connected to Earth via a tower, who does he kill?

4. Who is the Garissan victim that was a student of Mzu that is at the hotel of Mzu, Lodi, Voi and Eriba?

5. What kills Bonney?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bonney transform herself to attack Dariat?

2. What could have the different factions on Nyvan achieved if they cooperated instead of bickered over Mzu?

3. How is Quinn's deranged mental state evident in the bloody massacre of Dwyer?

4. What happens when a possessed is killed?

5. What happens when a possessed goes to zero tau?

6. How do Samuel, Mzu, and Monica try to escape the possessed via the basin?

7. When is a person able to escape the Anstid?

8. Why is Rocio uncomfortable with the idea of working with the Edenists?

9. Why do Dariat and Rubra want to fuse their powers?

10. Why are the Edenists willing to accept the hellhawk in Chapter 13?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Zero-tau is a form of stasis that will freeze a person or thing in the space-time-continuum. How does time move and change as a result? Which characters express this and in what ways? How is sensory feeling suspended?

Essay Topic 2

Hamilton uses more than one instance of irony in "The Neutronium Alchemist Conflict." Cite at least two examples you can identify in the book and note why they are examples of irony.

Essay Topic 3

Hamilton employs bold and and effective language with some powerful symbolism. Choose an example of symbolism, briefly describe it, and identify the technique which it embodies.

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