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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 is the name of Gareth’s company?

2. Which of the following does Gareth reference as he threatens Gwendy?

3. Which of the flight crew is last to enter the space station?

4. What nickname does Adesh have on the space mission?

5. With which of the following does Chapter 32 begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gwendy report regarding the Vice President?

2. What demonstration does Adesh give with his bugs?

3. How is the crew made aware of the fatal confrontation between Gwendy and Gareth?

4. What does Gwendy note had been Gareth’s mantra (347)?

5. What prevents Gwendy from napping after she reviews the email Charlotte sends her?

6. What technique does Gwendy learn to negotiate her mental lapses?

7. How does Gwendy perceive the knock at her door to summon her to her mental assessment on the space station?

8. What powers the rocket with which Gwendy has been sent into space?

9. What information does Charlotte provide in response to Gwendy’s appended query?

10. Why does Adesh report his conversations with other flight crew members to Gwendy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the function of the back matter in the text? How is that function achieved?

Essay Topic 2

A number of readers note the prevalence of overt real-world political messaging in the text. Does the presence of such add to or detract from the effect of the novel on your personal reading? How so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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