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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 Titus do at the end of 'Awake'?

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

3. What is 'The Rumble Spot'?

4. What does Marty suggest as an alternative to being drunk?

5. Why do Quendy and Loga go off to the bathroom at the beginning of 'The Nose Grid'?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe why the girls help Quendy with her hair, and why Titus finds this important.

2. Titus mentions they will be offline for a while, so the police can pull off information to use against the hacker. Do you think it would be fair to pull data from a computer in your brain to use, without your express permission?

3. When Titus doesn't tell Violet about his friends going mal, he feels he is protecting her from something. Why is he so bothered by their actions?

4. Why does Titus claim the moon is boring and 'sucky'?

5. Already in the story to this point, it is clear that Titus and Violet are beginning to have a relationship. Describe how the author has already implied this in the novel.

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

7. Explain why Titus doesn't want to try and cheer Violet up when she cries in the hospital.

8. Explain the protests about the moon.

9. Titus reflects that, without the feed, their "heads felt real empty" (pg. 46). What is your response?

10. Describe how Titus first sees the young woman.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Violet's character is unique in the novel, in that she is a traditionalist, whereas Titus is not. Compare and contrast Violet's character with those of Titus and his friends. How is she similar? How is she different? What are these differences? Why do you think such differences exist? What does this say about the effect of the feed and of social class on the characters in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Titus' world in the novel is in an environmental crisis. Using details from the book, discuss the world Titus leaves in. What has happened to the sun, air, clouds, and oceans? Why are domes needed? Why do they need suits to play near the water? What is covering the domes? What killed people in Central America? What is happening to the people themselves? Why is no one making an effort to change this?

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