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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 father?

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

3. What is the name of Gareth’s company?

4. In which of the following shapes is the chocolate Gwendy eats while making her report of Gareth’s death?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does Gwendy note for believing Gareth’s story about meeting Bobby?

2. What objections does Gareth voice to the suggested inspiration for the space station’s shape?

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

4. What, per the novel, is sundowning?

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

6. What is the initial content of the mental health assessment Gwendy takes on the space station?

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

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

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

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

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

Assuming that Gwendy’s Final Task should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. How might the novel be sectioned off other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?

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