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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who provides Mari tickets to Thurwar’s penultimate fight?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her father.

2. In what year, per the novel, did the United States ratify the Geneva Convention prohibiting the use of chemical weapons?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1975.

3. Which group do Young and Simon face on enforced march?
(a) Polunsky Unit.
(b) Mountain View Unit.
(c) Oklahoma State Pen.
(d) Largesse State Pen.

4. Per the novel, in what year was the Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban passed?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1990.

5. Who had been Melanchiolia Bishop’s first bloodsport kill?
(a) Murder Jefferson.
(b) Arson Johnson.
(c) Jaywalking Jones.
(d) Assault Jackson.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which of the following are Thurwar and Staxxx assigned?

2. Whose tent does Simon occupy initially?

3. Which of the following is Bad Water set to face?

4. Which of the following is *Walter Crousey* assigned to sell?

5. Of which of the following does Emily note Wil smells?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tradition had Thurwar’s group had during periods of media blackout?

2. Why does Thurwar posit more bloodsport competitors kill themselves in Hub Cities than elsewhere?

3. What does Mitchell Germin note is key to the popularity of the bloodsport?

4. For what reason does Thurwar posit she is being punished for the protest outside her penultimate fight?

5. How does Wil react to Emily’s shock at Simon’s entry into the bloodsport?

6. To what does Gunny ascribe the popularity of Thurwar and Staxxx?

7. How does Bad Water explain his incarceration?

8. Why do bloodsport competitors have relative privacy in Hub Cities?

9. Why does Mari enlist Nile to take her to Thurwar’s penultimate fight?

10. What is reported as a reaction to the Influencer by some who experience it?

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