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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 had been on the Velmont Vipers?

2. With what cause is Tracy Lasser aligned?

3. With which of the following does Part I begin?

4. Which of the following programs associates itself with the bloodsport?

5. What weapon does Thurwar’s opponent in her fifth Question Match wield?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the thesis of “Nowhere Near as Bad” in the novel?

2. Why does Emily prefer the broadcasts of the bloodsport competitors between bouts to the broadcasts of the fights themselves?

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

4. What is the importance of the fight against ReckLass to Thurwar’s career?

5. What is the purpose of the silence enforced on Young’s inmate population?

6. Why, in the novel, might bloodsport combatants be reluctant to fight between their bouts?

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

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

9. Why is the protest at Thurwar’s penultimate fight expected to be among the largest against the bloodsport?

10. What reason does St. Jean give for taking up anatomical study?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As the protagonist and her fellow combatants are driven away from a match, a skunk steps onto the road in front of them. It could have been any animal; what effect on the narrative does the choice of the animal being a skunk have? How is that effect achieved?

Essay Topic 2

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Chain-Gang All-Stars? By which groups? Why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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