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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. Who legally marries Mary Kaplan and Willard Flemming?

2. After the Bahia is raided, what is the Captain still in possession of?

3. Who said: "Progress has been much more general than retrogression."

4. Who does the surviving group on board the Bahia expect the most trouble to come from in Chapter 37?

5. How many times has the narrator been married?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Kamikaze catch by the spring and is about to copulate with?

2. Why is the Bahia considered to be a ghost ship in the opinion of humankind?

3. In the Captain's story he shares with Akiko, how are lobsters much like humans?

4. In Book 2: Chapter 12, what does the narrator suggest as a means for Mary Hepburn to keep on living with the Captain for a little while longer?

5. How is the Bahia married to the South American mainland?

6. What is the story behind Selena MacIntosh's blindness?

7. How does the narrator write this story?

8. What does the cancellation of "the Nature Cruise of the Century" mean to everyone in the bus in front of the Hotel El Dorado?

9. What does the narrator say after the death of Kazakh and James Wait? Why does he say this?

10. What is the launching of Reyes's missile compared to in Chapter 34?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Technology and robots are widely seen and used throughout the novel. In what ways has technology effected the characters in the novel? What dangers are there for a society which greatly depends on technology?

Essay Topic 2

The narrator, Leon Trout, states that all the sorrows of humankind are caused by "the only true villain in my story: the oversized human brain." Do you agree with his statement? Explain by using specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

In Book 1: Chapter 2, the narrator sees the blind Selena as an "experiment by Nature." Explain what the narrator means by an "experiment by Nature." Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?

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