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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 else knows how to remove the toxin sacs?

2. What wakes Case up?

3. Who is starting 'to go'?

4. What does Case notice when he opens the door of the hotel room?

5. What is the name of Molly's old boyfriend?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Case's "dream sequence."

2. What does Wintermute warn Case about at the end of the chapter?

3. Why does Ashpool kill his wife? How does her death affect the family?

4. What happens to Armitage in this chapter?

5. Describe the atmosphere and decor of Straylight.

6. Why does Case try to save Corto/Armitage?

7. What does Wintermute compare itself to? Why?

8. How is Case revived from the dream?

9. How does Wintermute get Case and Maelcum into the Straylight?

10. What advantage does Riviera claim to have over Wintermute? Do you think this is true?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay describing the symbiotic relationship that humanity has with technology. Be sure to address:

1) Why man needs machine, and why machine needs man.

2) The advantages of using technology.

3) The dangers of giving too much control of our world to machines.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on the role of technology in the human search for immortality. Be sure to address:

1) Possible applications of technology to extend human life, i.e., electronic encoding of the brain, medical science, cybernetics, etc.

2) Social, economic, and demographical effects of living forever.

3) Other methods, either scientific or mystical, by which humans have attempted to gain immortality.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining the negative aspects of technology described in Neuromancer:

1) Warnings about technology in Neuromancer, and how the book could be interpreted as being anti-technology.

2) Aspects of technological problems that the book predicts that are coming true or have already come true.

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