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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. With which of the following does Chapter 30 begin?
2. Which of the flight crew is first to enter the space station?
3. For how many years has the subject of interrogation in Derry been a detective?
4. With which of the following does Chapter 32 begin?
5. With which of the following does Chapter 29 begin?
Short Essay Questions
1. What technique does Gwendy learn to negotiate her mental lapses?
2. Of what does Gwendy dream on her fourth night on the space station?
3. What, per the novel, is sundowning?
4. In what ways does Gwendy perceive the space station like a haunted building in a movie?
5. What does Gwendy note had been Gareth’s mantra (347)?
6. How is the subject of interrogation at Derry interrogated?
7. What does Bobby remark is “the most important gift a young man can possess” (319)?
8. What powers the rocket with which Gwendy has been sent into space?
9. Why does Adesh report his conversations with other flight crew members to Gwendy?
10. What objections does Gareth voice to the suggested inspiration for the space station’s shape?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
To what extent is biographical criticism—broadly, a reading strategy that attempts to interpret the novel through its correspondences with the figures and events in its authors’ lives—appropriate to apply to Gwendy’s Final Task? What in the novel and the authors’ backgrounds suggests as much, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Notably, the puzzle box has buttons only for six continents. What significance accrues to the exclusion of Antarctica from the box? How does it accrue?
Essay Topic 3
The novel makes much of the price required for the use of the puzzle-box. Does the novel consider that cost worth paying? What in the text suggests as much, and how?
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