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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 is Henry’s mother’s maiden name?

2. With which of the following does "16 October 2015" begin?

3. The world-killing asteroid is approximately the size of what city?

4. Who is a third person to join Adrian in placing nickels in Henry’s gym locker?

5. At what time does the end of the world by nanobot begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do people react to the appearance of the world-killing asteroid?

2. Why does Henry take particular care to get home after Marcus picks him up from his old elementary school?

3. What reason does Henry assert for the aliens returning him to Earth naked?

4. What does Nana note is the comfort of old age?

5. Why does Henry note that “Dreams are hopeful” (135)?

6. What does Henry’s mother remark that Nana’s status was before she moved in with the Dentons?

7. What occasions the end of the world via nanobot?

8. What are the model and name of Diego’s car?

9. What is the initial reaction to the development of nanobots?

10. What does Henry remark caused a young Charlie to go without food for four days?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the overall philosophical outlook of the novel? What in the text substantiates that outlook, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

The novel interpolates a series of end-of-the-world scenarios. What function is served by the inclusion of those scenarios, and how does that function emerge?

Essay Topic 3

Assuming that We Are the Ants 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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