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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 do the girl and the narrator find half-way up the tower?
2. What did the narrator loose upon arriving in the Town?
3. Why does the shadow say he needed the map sooner?
4. Where does the narrator's shadow sleep?
5. What does the Colonel give the narrator to help nurse him back to health?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator's conversation with the Librarian about where he came from tell the reader about the nature of the Town?
2. Explain how the relationship between the narrator and the young woman develops in Chapter 5.
3. What does the Librarian say she particularly remembers about her mother in Chapter 22? How does the narrator explain this memory?
4. Why does the chubby girl think her grandfather's lab hasn't been broken into in Chapter 21?
5. What does the Colonel tell the narrator about the beasts' death in Chapter 20?
6. What does the narrator realize in Chapter 17 about Junior's reference to a "time bomb"?
7. Which unusual things have you noticed about the Town as described in Chapter 4?
8. Explain where the narrator is at the beginning of Chapter 1 and what he spends his time doing.
9. Describe the process for reading dreams.
10. How does the narrator imagine his retirement in Chapter 13?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Explain how the phrase "the End of the World" is used to link the two storylines together and explain what the end of the world really is.
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 37, the narrator says he was born by the sea and liked to collect things washed on shore by the typhoon. He says his life has always been about "gathering up the junk, sorting through it, and then casting it off somewhere else. All for no purpose...". Explain how the narrator's current life is this way and draw parallels between this and the people in the Town.
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