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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 does Violet admit to Titus in 'The Others in Mal'?

2. What benefit does Titus note to having the feed?

3. Where is Link?

4. How does Titus feel about who receives the feed information?

5. Where does everything from the feed go?

Short Essay Questions

1. Titus reports that "everyone is supersmart now", because everyone can look anything up instantly. Based on what you have seen in the novel, do you agree that everyone is intelligent?

2. What do you think happened in 'Nudging'? Was Titus dreaming, or were the police or the hacker group sifting through his feed?

3. Titus mentions the lack of need for a picture like the one he sees in the hospital. What does this say about Titus' imagination?

4. At the party, Titus' feed reports that the president is making a speech. Describe the content of the speech, and your reaction to it.

5. What does Violet imply when she notes that Titus is the only one of his group that is able to use metaphors?

6. Violet is supposing, in 'Normal', that things will be different, because they have been through something dramatic. Do you think most teenagers would change after something like this?

7. Explain what Violet means by the days at the hospital being salad days.

8. Describe how the teenagers are attacked.

9. Explain the protests about the moon.

10. Explain the text within these chapters that is in italics. What are they, and what is your impression, thus far, of a feed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Violet and Quendy are two of the females in the novel, and are very different from one another. Their differences explain much about the characters, and their lives in the novel. Choose one of the following topics to discuss.

1) Compare and contrast Violet and Quendy. How are they the same? How are they different? Include examples from the book.

2) Why do you think Quendy and Violet are so drastically different from one another? Be sure to include information from the book.

Essay Topic 2

A strong theme running through the novel is the danger of a strong reliance of technology, and what can happen to any society that is fed information, as opposed to a society who freely seeks information. Choose three examples in the novel where a heavy reliance on the technology of the feed is detrimental to society. Be sure to list not only the example, but also explain why that example shows a detrimental situation for society. How could that example be different if the society was one in which information had to be obtained, instead of being fed to consumers?

Essay Topic 3

Violet's father feels very differently about the world than other individuals. Discuss Violet's father. Why is he different than other parents? What is his primary goal? Why does he home school Violet? What effect does this have on her? What is his passion? Why does he choose to speak as he does? Who does he blame at the end of the novel for the death of his daughter, and why?

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