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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. Which of the following does Tracy Lasser cite?

2. As which of the following does Wright label Thurwar?

3. What is Melancholia Bishop’s real name?

4. In which of the following stadia is Thurwar set to fight?

5. What is Staxxx’s catchphrase as she enters her fights?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Forest Worley’s conception of the bloodsport differ from his father’s?

2. For what crime was Staxxx convicted?

3. How are bloodsport competitors restrained in the arenas where their fights occur?

4. What is the significance of the campfires the bloodsport competitors encounter?

5. Per the novel, what effects does solitary confinement have on prisoners?

6. What is the greatest extent of freedom any participant in the bloodsport can experience while still in its programs?

7. Why is silence enforced on the bloodsport competitors while they are being transported?

8. Why does Mari value Nile?

9. How does Lucas’s father view the use of St. Jean’s work?

10. How does Staxxx dispatch Rave Bear?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-naming scheme at work in Chain-Gang All-Stars? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 3

Readerly attention also focuses on the remarks that “Just ‘cause you enslaved don’t make you a slave. You can’t ever be that” (70). To what extent does the novel bear out those remarks? How does it do so?

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