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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. About what age is Charles in the narrative?

2. By what name does Charles also refer to as The Women I Never Married?

3. In Chapter 12, the narrator remembers being driven home from the park at what age by his father?

4. What does Charles's mother complain about when she speaks to him in Chapter 13?

5. What is the name of Charles's dog?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the theme park in Loop City symbolize?

2. How does the narrator relate to TAMMY? What is her character like?

3. What is metaphorical about the narrator's visit to see his mother in Chapter 13?

4. Discuss the metaphor for time travel and its relation to the narrator's father in Chapter 3. What does the symbolism say about the narrator's father?

5. What does the narrator advise to the client in Chapter 8? What is his assessment of his clients' desires?

6. How are the setting and protagonist of the novel described in Chapter 1?

7. What leads to Charles's outburst in Chapter 15? What does he discover on the ship?

8. What problem does the narrator discover with his ship in Chapter 10?

9. What is significant about the narrator's memory of his father in Chapter 12?

10. How is nostalgia defined in the excerpt "nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the character of "The Woman My Mother Should Have Been." How does this character differ from Charles's real mother?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the setting of Loop City in the narrative. How does Loop City reflect the cities of our world today?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the settings of Universe 31 and TM-31. What is the size of the universe? How big is Charles's ship?

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