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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 are failing?
2. What does one poster on the net think think the Blight needs?
3. What do the Olsndots set up?
4. Which fragment escapes the butchering of Scriber?
5. How does Ravna wish she could learn more about the Slowness?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Steel plan to use the alien ship for and what does Tyrathect hope to do about this?
2. What the Arbitration Arts Corporation communicate in various posts about a new Power?
3. How is the curse of the Pharoah's tomb related to what the humans from the Straumli Realm are doing on Earth?
4. What is Lord Steel dealing with as Woodcarver's forces advance?
5. Describe the beings that attack the Olsndots.
6. How does Greenstalk create havoc with Pham's trust of the two Riders?
7. What happens that Blueshell likens to a tsunami?
8. Describe Blueshell and Greenstalk.
9. What is the technology like that the humans in the lab are developing and what happens?
10. Explain what the material in OOB's library says about the origins of Riders.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Johanna has been quite hostile at the beginning of her captivity, so the Queen orders her lodged next to her, where she can treat her wound and befriend her as a first step to studying her. Discuss the following:
1. How is the above situation with what the Queen does similar to the saying, "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."
2. Do you think the Queen's friendship and kindnesses produce positive results with Johanna? Why or why not?
3. Do you think in the "real" world befriending prisoners of war would actually be more useful than treating them cruelly? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
In order to understand the action in A Fire upon the Deep, it is helpful to understand the layout of the universe which exists five billion years hence. Discuss the following:
1. Describe the various layers of the universe and how each one functions. Which ones are welcoming to technology? In which ones can most technology not exist? Where does Earth fall in these layers?
2. In the Epilog, Peregrine says he believes they will one day travel in space, especially now with the "two-legs" technology and knowledge. Do you think space travel will be a good thing for this planet to aspire to? Why or why not? Given where this planet is positioned within the beyond, can they develop space travel? At what speed will they be able to travel?
3. Do you think it is possible that space will change as much as it has in A Fire upon the Deep given 5 billion years? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Vernor Vinge is a not only a novelist, but a professor of mathematics. The book A Fire upon the Deep won the Hugo award for Science Fiction. It is useful to know about him not just because he authored A Fire upon the Deep, but also because his ideas of the future might need to be considered.
1. Research Vinge and write a brief biography of him.
2. What do you find to be most impressive about the man?
3. What do you think is Vinge's greatest accomplishment?
4. Vinge writes and essay titled, "The Coming Technological Singularity." Much of those ideas can be found in A Fire upon the Deep. Research and relate his essay to his book.
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