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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. In what year was McCleskey sentenced?

2. What weapon had Sunset used?

3. What profession had Gunny wanted to enter?

4. How tall is Staxxx?

5. Per the novel, what was the percent rate of increase in suicide among inmates in *state* prisons from 2001 to 2019?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Bad Water explain his incarceration?

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

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

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

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

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

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

The novel makes implicit and explicit critiques of a number of people and systems. Which comes under the sharpest critique? What in the novel demonstrates as much, and how does it do so?

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