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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 Rave Bear’s real name?

2. With which of the following guards does Thurwar chat?

3. Which of the following advertises on Melancholia Bishop?

4. Who is effectively the leader of the Coalition to End Neo-Slavery?

5. What is the name of Eighty’s weapon?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What afflicts St. Jean’s father?

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

5. Why is Wright hurt by Thurwar’s usual reticence?

6. Why does Wright accept Thurwar’s initial refusal of a nickname?

7. What advice does Melancholia give Thurwar?

8. Why had Nile been an older college student?

9. Why does Thurwar eschew entrance music?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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