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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 been included in the first breakfast Simon had on the enforced march?

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

3. Where is the Influencer applied to Mari?

4. Per the novel, in what year was the Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban passed?

5. To which of the following does *Kai* compare the protest outside Thurwar’s penultimate bloodsport bout?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Bad Water explain his incarceration?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What had St. Jean done in prison?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the novel’s repeated presentation of relief at survival and guilt at that relief. What function does the tension between relief and guilt serve in the novel? How is that function presented?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Assuming that Chain-Gang All-Stars should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

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