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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 Levi Paul’s sword?
2. Of which of the following was Sunset known to have smelled?
3. Which of the following had Rave Bear killed?
4. From which of the following does Staxxx hail?
5. Which of the following do the Erasers reportedly kill?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the greatest extent of freedom any participant in the bloodsport can experience while still in its programs?
2. Why is Wright hurt by Thurwar’s usual reticence?
3. What is the thesis of “Nowhere Near as Bad” in the novel?
4. Why, in the novel, might bloodsport combatants be reluctant to fight between their bouts?
5. What had been the organizing principle under which Sunset Harkless had led his combatant group?
6. Why had Nile been an older college student?
7. Why does Thurwar regard her legs as “her saving grace”?
8. What is the significance of the campfires the bloodsport competitors encounter?
9. Why is silence enforced on the bloodsport competitors while they are being transported?
10. How is Staxxx’s fight against Rave Bear promoted?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
To what genre other than science fiction might Chain-Gang All-Stars be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Assuming that Chain-Gang All-Stars should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Readerly attention focuses on the following comment: “It was hard to forget the things that hurt you. You didn't often forget the shape of your cage” (52). What might account for that attention? How might it do so? What in the text and in experience lead you to such an idea?
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