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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. Where did Dr. Calvin Rooney attend medical school?

2. When will the crew of the Jersey Colony return to Earth?

3. What is Giordino's job at NUMA?

4. What type of an accent does Lieutenant Commander Worley have?

5. How long ago did the men on the blimp die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Prosperteer.

2. Why did Pitt place a hair across his door when he escaped from his cell the first time?

3. Why was Dr. Calvin Rooney not happy about doing an autopsy on a victim of drug overdose?

4. Why do Pitt and crew on the Prosperteer need to be back by 1400 hours?

5. Why can't radioman Sparks call another ship?

6. Why didn't Ira Hagen go to Houston?

7. How are the deaths of the bodies on the blimp similar to a case Rooney had fifteen years ago?

8. Describe the caravan that brought passengers and cargo to the Cyclops before the ship left Rio de Janeiro.

9. What is the Jersey Colony?

10. Why does Hagen tell the President not to judge the men of the Inner Core too harshly?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Argue whether each storyline of the novel does or does not have a protagonist and an antagonist. Use examples from the novel to support your position.

Essay Topic 2

Steinmetz says that the lunar colonists have a home-town advantage if it comes down to a fight with the Russians. Explain how this home-town advantage worked for and against the colonists. Use examples from "Cyclops."

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the novel, argue whether Jessie did or did not know that Raymond killed Hans Kroenburg and stole La Dorada.

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