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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 creatures do the girl and the narrator meet underground?

2. Why does the chubby girl say she wears pink?

3. What does the chubby girl say she can hear from the INKlings?

4. Where does the narrator put the skull he's received from the old man?

5. Why does the shadow say he needed the map sooner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Colonel tell the narrator about the Woods and the Woodspeople in Chapter 14?

2. What do you know about the narrator's job based on your reading of Chapter 3?

3. Briefly describe the memory the narrator has while climbing the underground tower with the chubby girl.

4. What does the Gatekeeper have to say about the fact that the narrator got lost in the Woods and fell ill?

5. What does the narrator realize in Chapter 17 about Junior's reference to a "time bomb"?

6. What does the Librarian say she particularly remembers about her mother in Chapter 22? How does the narrator explain this memory?

7. Describe the Colonel and his relationship to the narrator.

8. Describe the Collection Room.

9. How does the narrator imagine his retirement in Chapter 13?

10. What does Junior tell the narrator to tell the System about their visit and the wound? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the fact that the narrator in Chapter 37 says that he's never chosen to do anything of his own free will. Plead for or against the truth of this statement by contrasting it with the choices the narrator makes about his own life leading up to the end of the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Explain what the Townspeople, the shadow and the Professor say about the beasts and use these varying viewpoints to explain the role unicorns play in the novel as a whole.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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