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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 kind of hat offends Alice?

2. In what play does Marx star as Sam and Sadie begin work on their first game together?

3. What is the name of Marx’s father?

4. With which of the following does "II. Influences" begin?

5. Which of the following flowers does Sadie enjoy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What occasions the death of one of Sadie’s high school friends?

2. What is the format of the class Dov teaches?

3. What reason does Sam have for continuing to visit Sadie in her college apartment?

4. Why does Marx tend to over-order takeout?

5. What does Sam shout to get Sadie’s attention in the subway station?

6. How does a player win the first level of Mapletown?

7. How does Marx demonstrate that he works well as a game producer?

8. Why does Sadie prefer Sam as a creative partner to the idea of Sam as a lover?

9. What reasons does Marx have for tending to Sam while they are roommates?

10. What is Sadie obliged to give up while Alice is in the hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Zevin’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 2

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 3

Assuming that Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 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?

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