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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 old man working on in Chapter 3?
2. What does the Colonel say will become of the narrator's feelings for his shadow in Chapter 8?
3. What does the chubby girl say she can hear from the INKlings?
4. What does the Professor say will happen in regards to the narrator's three cognitive circuits?
5. What does the Gatekeeper tell the narrator about the Power Station?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the differences between Western and Eastern unicorns as presented in Chapter 9.
2. What does Junior tell the narrator to tell the System about their visit and the wound? Why?
3. What does the Colonel tell the narrator about the Woods and the Woodspeople in Chapter 14?
4. Why does the Professor say in Chapter 25 that he gave the narrator the data to shuffle with the terminal program?
5. Why does the chubby girl think her grandfather's lab hasn't been broken into in Chapter 21?
6. What do you know about the Wall surrounding the Town based on your readings in Chapter 10?
7. How does the narrator imagine his retirement in Chapter 13?
8. What do you know about the Pool based on your readings in Chapter 12?
9. Give a brief description of the beasts introduced in Chapter 2.
10. Explain where the narrator is at the beginning of Chapter 1 and what he spends his time doing.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the Tokyo narrator's escapist tendencies, giving several concrete examples.
Essay Topic 2
Describe the video game the Tokyo narrator plays while waiting for his date with the librarian and draw parallels to his own situation. Describe the video game the Tokyo narrator plays while waiting for his date with the librarian and draw parallels to his own situation.
Essay Topic 3
Explain how "shuffling" is done and the significance of this process for the novel's exploration of consciousness.
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