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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. How does the Librarian feel about the Pool?

2. What does the Colonel say will become of the narrator's shadow in Chapter 8?

3. What creatures do the girl and the narrator meet underground?

4. In what way does the Professor say the mind is like Alice in Wonderland?

5. What do Junior and Big Boy drink while visiting the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the differences between Western and Eastern unicorns as presented in Chapter 9.

3. Describe the procedure the narrator goes through to prepare for shuffling.

4. What is the source of the noise that dominates the first half of Chapter 23?

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

6. Why does the Professor say in Chapter 25 that he gave the narrator the data to shuffle with the terminal program?

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

8. Why does the chubby girl think her grandfather's lab hasn't been broken into in Chapter 21?

9. What do you know about the Pool based on your readings in Chapter 12?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe what the narrator refers to in Chapter 35 as "despair", "disillusionment" and "hell" and explain why he says he's unable to create a better life for himself.

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

Give a detailed description of the Hard-Boiled Wonderland narrator's personality and explain how he changes throughout the novel.

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