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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 Thurwar murdered?

2. What team normally uses the field on which Thurwar prepares for her penultimate fight?

3. What is Mitchell Germin’s title?

4. Which of the following is the first to pose Thurwar a question?

5. Which of the following had Razor and Bells killed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is arriving at a Hub City jarring?

2. Why does Thurwar posit more bloodsport competitors kill themselves in Hub Cities than elsewhere?

3. Why did Staxxx’s mother caution her to be careful giving out her name?

4. What tradition had Thurwar’s group had during periods of media blackout?

5. What is reported as a reaction to the Influencer by some who experience it?

6. How does Wil react to Emily’s shock at Simon’s entry into the bloodsport?

7. Why did Thurwar engage in a hunger strike?

8. Why do bloodsport competitors have relative privacy in Hub Cities?

9. What had St. Jean done in prison?

10. Why does Sunset note not being able to face the outside world?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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