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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. Which Doctor Who actor does Audrey prefer?

2. With which of the following does "24 November 2015" begin?

3. At which of the following restaurants do the Dentons and Diego eat on Christmas Eve?

4. Which of the following is the first nation to incentivize long-term Mind’s Eye use?

5. Which of the following comic book series does Diego read?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Henry assert would be worse than finding the dead body of one’s child?

2. How does Henry note his mother discouraged him and Charlie from rising early on Christmas?

3. How does Nana describe her experience with Kenny Highcastle?

4. What happens after the last hive of honeybees dies?

5. On what condition does Henry agree to skip school with Diego?

6. How does Henry understand Marcus’s self-concept?

7. What does Zooey tell Henry that she sees in Charlie?

8. How does Henry know what time he is awakened on 4 November 2015 (171)?

9. For what reasons does Henry abandon searching for his father?

10. Audrey asks Henry why “people who so obviously hate children have so many of them” (319). What is Henry’s response?

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

Readerly attention focuses on the following comment: “Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love’s only demand is that we fall” (5). Does the novel affirm or deny the comment, overall? What in the text indicates that summative affirmation or denial? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the novel’s presentation of trauma. How authentic is it? How accurate is it? How do you know?

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