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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 does Blood find in the theater?

2. What does Quilla June use to control Vic's behavior in chapter five?

3. Who is the girl that Vic is chasing out of the theater?

4. Which character acts the most intelligently in chapter four?

5. What gives Blood his special abilities?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Blood still waiting at the dropshaft for Vic?

2. What does Quilla June use to put Vic off guard?

3. Why do Vic and Quilla June travel back to the dropshaft after they escape from the city out the airshaft?

4. Why does Quilla June keep asking Vic if he loves her as they are leaving the city?

5. Why does the food in Topeka taste like chalk?

6. Why does Vic want to rape the"chick"?

7. Why must Vic check his guns at the door to the theater?

8. Why do no other dogs in the theater sense the "chick"?

9. What two things seem to occupy Vic's mind all the time?

10. Why is the news that Blood brings Vic inside the gym important?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the character of Quilla June Holmes and explain why you think she behaves the way she does. Show at least three examples of her behavior and explain what this behavior tells you about her character.

Essay Topic 2

Explain how the ending of this book provides a very unforeseen twist. What do you think the twist has to do with the moral of this story?

Essay Topic 3

The author of this book examines some hard issues about human meaning and existence in his alternate future. Explain how this alternate future makes it easier to examine these issues. How does it make some issues harder to examine? Use three examples where the author needs an alternate future to make his point clearer.

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