Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

David Eagleman
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

David Eagleman
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Perpetuity: What does God hope will happen to the sinners?

2. Mary: When did God become disenchanted with man?

3. Mirrors: What does the first death feel like?

4. The Cast: What did the dream actors do at one point?

5. Reins: Who does God talk to in the afterlife?

Short Essay Questions

1. Spirals: What do the creatures in this afterlife want from humans?

2. Great Expectations: What doe people expect in this afterlife?

3. Angst: Why do the humans in this story dread returning to the afterlife?

4. Giantess: What happened as a result of the princely man's attempt to communicate with the Giantess?

5. Descent of Species: What does the human-turned-horse realize right before he can no longer think?

6. Mary: What disappoints God the most about his relationship with humans?

7. Circle of Friends: This afterlife is populated by people who you felt were important enough to remember from your life. You never meet a stranger and you have the chance to renew old bonds and friendships. However, people are not happy here. Why?

8. Spirals: Why do the creatures in this afterlife think humans are so intelligent?

9. The Cast: As you live your life, all of the people in the background of your life are actors. They are those in the afterlife who must play "roles" in your life. However, not every actor is happy being a character in your life. Why are they so dissatisfied?

10. Oz: What does God say is the true measure of bravery?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Absence:

God is missing and no one knows where he is. To make matters worse, God has been gone for so long some in Heaven are beginning to believe he never existed to begin with. As a result wars break out that mirror the religious wars on earth. Why does this happen? What are the people in Heaven fighting over? What do the people on earth fight over? Do you think it is important for those of Heaven and earth to have a God? Why or why not?

Please base your answers on the context of the story, not on your personal religious beliefs.

Essay Topic 2

Adhesion:

The Collectors have created human beings in an effort to understand why some things stick together. They study man to discover why some human relationships work while others fail. So far their experiment has been both costly and time consuming as they still are baffled by human relationships.

1) List the reasons in the story that people stay together in relationships.

2) List the reasons in the story that people break off relationships.

Pretend you are the Collector who must come to a final conclusion about human adhesion once and for all. What do you conclude is the reason man forms lasting relationships? Why do they form impermanent ones? Explain your answer using evidence the Collectors have in the story.

Essay Topic 3

Seed:

God has slipped into seclusion because he is afraid that he will disappoint man. You see, he created man by complete accident. As man becomes smarter it is harder for God to impress him.

What do you think about this? Do you think science has made it harder for people to be impressed by God? Why or why not? Should God feel like an amateur magician because his creation of man was a mistake? Should he feel good because man is a great creation? Why do you feel the way you do?

Please keep your answers within the context of the story.

(see the answer keys)

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