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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 the name of the person who donated his body for Travis's surgery?

2. What word from the narrative refers to the ability to receive or contain?

3. What word from Chapter 13 means a thing that causes disgust or hatred?

4. What did Kyle confess to Travis shortly before Travis "died"?

5. What is the title of Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one of the major themes that is developed in the first chapters of the book? How is it developed?

2. What does Travis discuss with Dr. Saranson in Chapter 10?

3. What is the significance of the painting that Travis recalls in Chapter 8?

4. What is Travis's objective in Chapter 16? How does he go about achieving that objective?

5. What does Cate say to Travis when she calls him in Chapter 19?

6. What is the symbolic or metaphorical significance of Travis's experience at the movie theater in Chapter 13?

7. Whom does Travis go to see in Chapter 11? What do they discuss?

8. What are some examples of foreshadowing in Chapters 1-4?

9. How are the themes of the past, the present, and friendship developed in Chapters 14-18?

10. To whom does Travis reach out for help and advice in Chapter 4? What advice is he given?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Travis remark about his decision to be cryogenically frozen throughout the narrative? How do his feelings change about this decision? Whom does Travis feel he made the decision for?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the character of Kyle in the novel. For how long has Travis known Kyle? Why is their relationship strained after Travis's reanimation? What is the secret Kyle has been hiding?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the characters of Cate, Glen, and Janice. When does Travis encounter each of these characters after his reanimation? How would you describe their relationships to Travis? What do these characters signify in the narrative?

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