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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. At which of the following does Gwendy jump at dinner?
2. From which of the following does Charlotte pull cell phone footage of Derry for Gwendy?
3. With which of the following does Chapter 33 begin?
4. Whom does Gwendy call for a referral to a Washington mental health professional?
5. What brand of shoe does Gwendy wear?
Short Essay Questions
1. To what does Gwendy attribute the origin of her mental condition?
2. How is the subject of interrogation at Derry interrogated?
3. What demonstration does Adesh give with his bugs?
4. What prevents Gwendy from napping after she reviews the email Charlotte sends her?
5. What information does Charlotte provide in response to Gwendy’s appended query?
6. What objections does Gareth voice to the suggested inspiration for the space station’s shape?
7. What fate is posited for the person whose cell phone footage Charlotte sends to Gwendy?
8. How does Gwendy perceive the knock at her door to summon her to her mental assessment on the space station?
9. What does Bobby remark is “the most important gift a young man can possess” (319)?
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
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
Overall, what is the most important theme of Gwendy’s Final Task. What in the text indicates as much? 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. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?
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