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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. Which crew member retrieves Gwendy for her mental health assessment on the space station?

2. What brand of shoe does Gwendy wear?

3. For which of the following does Gwendy mistake Gareth’s name?

4. With which of the following does Chapter 25 begin?

5. At which of the following does Gwendy jump at dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the subject of interrogation at Derry interrogated?

2. What travel to Maine does Gareth note having undertaken?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What demonstration does Adesh give with his bugs?

10. What fate is posited for the person whose cell phone footage Charlotte sends to Gwendy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

Essay Topic 2

Given that the novel is the third in a trilogy, what assumptions does it appear to make about readers being familiar with the earlier volumes in the trilogy? What in the novel indicates those assumptions? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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