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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 Marty suggest as an alternative to being drunk?
2. Why can Violet's parents not come to get her, according to Violet?
3. What is a salad day, according to Violet?
4. Where do the teenagers go to have fun at the beginning of the novel?
5. What does Titus realize about the painting?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe how you perceive the teenagers by this point in the novel.
2. Explain why Calista, Marty, Titus, and Link can get into college parties.
3. Discuss the conversation in 'Dead Language' about writing, and what the conversation implies.
4. Loga was not touched by the hacker. How do you think she feels?
5. What does the text of 'Awake' indicate about how much the teenagers rely on the feed?
6. 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.
7. 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?
8. What does Violet imply when she notes that Titus is the only one of his group that is able to use metaphors?
9. At the party, Titus' feed reports that the president is making a speech. Describe the content of the speech, and your reaction to it.
10. Why is Titus so lonely?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The language used by the author in the novel is definitely different than in other novels. What do you think the author was trying to achieve with this language? Do you think the language helps convey the concepts of teenage life, or do you think it detracts from the novel?
Essay Topic 2
In the book, author M.T. Anderson makes reference to many issues currently facing the world, including a reliance on technology, corporate ownership of nearly everything, a dumbing down of society, environmental issues, and others. Choose one of the issues M.T. Anderson discusses in the novel that affects the modern world. What is the issue? How does this issue appear in our own time? How is it portrayed in the novel? What do you think Anderson is trying to say about this issue?
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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