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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 do Hope and Khukov discuss while playing billiards?

2. What type of government does Ganymede have?

3. Who is in charge of the Navy?

4. What comes of Hopie's and Hope's education argument?

5. Who asks Hope for direction in working on the budget?

Short Essay Questions

1. What purpose does the Preface serve in to this story?

2. What happens at the press conference in Chapter 5, and how does it help to define Hope's new Tyrancy?

3. Describe Hope's "act of war" in Chapter 5.

4. Describe how the Navy affected Hope's rise to power.

5. Explain why Hopie is unhappy. How does she come to understand the situation?

6. What concern takes the place of the threat of war for Hope? How does he deal with it?

7. In what ways are Hope's future solar system and our own Earth similar?

8. Describe Hope as a man and as a leader as he appears in Chapter 3.

9. In Chapter 2, what is the state of the Tyrancy?

10. Describe Amber.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Hope arrives to meet the senators, what happens? In what way is the plan of the senators similar to the plan of different senators, long ago in Rome? What does go differently with this plan?

Essay Topic 2

When did Hope first manifest the ability to see dead people? What happened?

Essay Topic 3

How do you feel about capital punishment? Should capital punishment be allowed in the United States? Considering how Hope feels about public executions, is he right to allow it to continue politically?

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