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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. For which of the following is St. Jean arrested?

3. What is the name of Levi Paul’s sword?

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

5. What weapons does Rave Bear use?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had been the organizing principle under which Sunset Harkless had led his combatant group?

2. For what crime had Thurwar been convicted?

3. How does Staxxx dispatch Rave Bear?

4. Why does Thurwar regard her legs as “her saving grace”?

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

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

9. What afflicts St. Jean’s father?

10. How does the novel define the term “Grand Colossal”?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of Chain-Gang All-Stars. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Adjei-Brenyah’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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