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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 advertises on Thurwar?

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

3. Which of the following guards poses for a picture with Thurwar?

4. What is Melancholia Bishop’s real name?

5. What is the name of Thurwar’s opponent in her fifth Question Match?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Thurwar eschew entrance music?

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

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

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

6. What afflicts St. Jean’s father?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Of the punishments inflicted on people in the novel, which is the worst? Why is it the worst?

Essay Topic 2

How does the novel define prison abolition? Support the definition from explained evidence the text provides.

Essay Topic 3

If there is a single antagonist in the text, who is it? How does the work support such an assertion?

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