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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. How many embryos has the fugitive run off with at the start of the novel?
2. Adam has what sort of problem?
3. What is Charlie's last name?
4. Tom gets a call that what relative of his has died?
5. What is Borden's first name?
Short Essay Questions
1. Brad Gordon is the inept security guard at BioGen. He only has the job because his uncle is Jack Watson, an investor in the company. Do you agree with Brad being given the job at BioGen or relatives being given jobs, in general, in real life?
2. Do you agree or disagree with Frank's doctor taking his tissue and why?
3. Describe Brad's attitude and activities in this section. What do they say about his moral character?
4. Do you agree with the hospital's reaction of destroying the remaining tissues in the Weller case when Emily Weller requests her own investigation?
5. Explain Alex Burnet's feelings about the court case against her father.
6. In the prologue, the reader is introduced to a fugitive who stole embryos from his place of work, a research lab. What possible motives might the fugitive have had and do you agree with those motives?
7. Explain how greed motivates Josh and Rick in this section with regards to the maturity gene.
8. Describe Jack Watson's role in the prologue and what it could mean to the rest of the story.
9. Henry Kendall learns that the blood he took to Roberts is human and that the DNA matches his own. Henry goes to the NIH lab in Bethesda where he was working on a transgenic chimpanzee four years ago when an encephalitis outbreak interrupted. Henry spends time with the chimpanzee, who is, for all intents and purposes, Henry's son, before learning it is to be destroyed. Henry decides to steal the chimpanzee from the lab and take it home, though he is not sure what he will do with him then. Do you feel that it was right for Henry to steal the Chimpanzee?
10. Explain how the Levines are further identified, in Chapter 23 and what that could mean later, as things develop.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Many events are foreshadowed in the book. Describe at least four examples where foreshadowing was used and also discuss the results of those events.
Essay Topic 2
Choose three important lessons that you learned from the book as a whole. Describe what those lessons are, when you learned them and why you feel that they are important. Some examples of topics include:
Animal testing
Human DNA experimentation
Bounty hunting
Legal rights
Stealing
Lying
Essay Topic 3
Deception is one of the main themes of the book. Explain three instances where deception was used in the book. Also, explain whether or not you agree with those deceptions or feel they were necessary and why or why not.
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