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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. Who is Connie overjoyed to see return to the institution?

2. When Luciente leaves Connie after their first meeting, he tells her to think of him when she is what?

3. When Connie can communicate with the future, she is diagnosed as what?

4. What is the name of Luciente's watch?

5. Connie learns that names do what, as a person moves from one stage of life to another in Luciente's community?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Luciente uncomfortable when he appears to Connie the first time?

2. What events does Chapter 2 narrate?

3. How do the children learn in Luciente's community?

4. Why is Connie confused about the naming ritual Innocente is going to undergo?

5. Who does Connie see when she is at the playground?

6. What does Luciente's community symbolize to Connie?

7. When Connie begins to think of Angelina as a "canned child," what happens to her?

8. Why does Dolly appear at Connie's door?

9. How did Connie lose Angelina?

10. What is the symbolism of Connie's cell in the hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain, using examples from the book, what the irony is in Luciente's belief that sometimes murder is okay. Why is it ironic?

Essay Topic 2

What is the reason the author included Connie and Dolly's conversation at the beginning of Chapter 2? How does it contribute to the reader's understanding of the story and the characters?

Essay Topic 3

How does the changing of names in the future relate to the psychoanalytical premise that an individual's personality consists of different facets? Show, using examples from the book, how Connie exhibits this.

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