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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 Mime's concern?

2. What does Susana want fixed?

3. What is Carson's job according to Singer?

4. What does Singer call Nye?

5. Why is Brent angry with Rodney?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who assumes control after Rosalind is exposed and why?

2. How does Brent get even with Levine for televising the accident details from Mount Dragon?

3. What is Brandon-Smith's problem with how Guy is handling the research he is doing?

4. What is Singer's response to the formal complaint filed by Rosalind against Guy?

5. How does Brent feel about Rodney?

6. How does Levine manage to ensure the truth is revealed without actually revealing it himself?

7. What background about Levine and Scopes does Singer share with Carson?

8. What does Gil Teece do when he arrives?

9. What is significant about the satellite photos that Dr. Levine shows his lecture audience?

10. What is Rosalind's behavior like when she is scratched? How does that affect Roger?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the details of the lawsuit filed against Dr. Levine by GeneDyne? How does Levine believe the lawsuit is linked to his patent with Brent Scopes? What is the issue that surrounds the current renewal that is pending? Why is it unlikely that the two former friends will be unable to come to an agreement regarding the patents renewal?

Essay Topic 2

How does Levine reveal information to a televised audience after he has been warned not to do so? What human quality does he rely on to help him to reveal facts to the audience? Does this absolve him of responsibility in the eyes of the law? Would this hold up in light of the pending lawsuit against him? Knowing the nature of people, could Levine be sure that his method of revelation would work?

Essay Topic 3

How does this novel reveal that truth is subjective? What events are presented to minimize their effect or to maximize their advantage? Compare and contrast the methods used to spread information to methods used by any or all of large corporations today. What events in our history could compare to the way information was managed in this novel? In which ways are they similar or different?

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