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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 comment from Simon prompt’s Young’s laughter?

2. Who had been Melanchiolia Bishop’s first bloodsport kill?

3. Which are the first two Young and Simon fight as a pair?

4. Which of the following leads the group Young and Simon face on enforced march?

5. Which of the following had Staxxx killed alongside Thurwar?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mari manage to get her sign into the arena for Thurwar’s penultimate fight?

2. How had Thurwar adjusted Staxxx’s training regimen in the weeks leading up to their fight?

3. Why does Mari enlist Nile to take her to Thurwar’s penultimate fight?

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

5. What had St. Jean done in prison?

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

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

8. What does Young ask in advance of his first fight alongside Simon?

9. Why did Thurwar engage in a hunger strike?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of Chain-Gang All-Stars do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Readerly attention focuses on the following comment: “It was hard to forget the things that hurt you. You didn't often forget the shape of your cage” (52). What might account for that attention? How might it do so? What in the text and in experience lead you to such an idea?

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