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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 leads the group Young and Simon face on enforced march?

2. Which of the following is *Walter Crousey* assigned to sell?

3. How old is Randy Mac when he dies?

4. In what year, per the novel, did the United States ratify the Geneva Convention prohibiting the use of chemical weapons?

5. Where is the Influencer applied to Mari?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is arriving at a Hub City jarring?

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

3. What reservations does Kai have about Mari giving interviews?

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

5. What had St. Jean done in prison?

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

7. For what reason does Thurwar posit she is being punished for the protest outside her penultimate fight?

8. What does Mitchell Germin note is key to the popularity of the bloodsport?

9. Why does Thurwar have the members of her group run laps with their weapons?

10. Why did Thurwar engage in a hunger strike?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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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