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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. How tall is Staxxx?

2. How old had Bad Water been when he was incarcerated?

3. What weapon had Sunset used?

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

5. Whose study had McCleskey cited in his appeal?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is arriving at a Hub City jarring?

2. What had St. Jean done in prison?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why did Thurwar engage in a hunger strike?

10. To what does Gunny ascribe the popularity of Thurwar and Staxxx?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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

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