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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 does Emilia's son reveal to her about himself in Part III?

2. What is an IMEI on a kentuki?

3. What does Claudio unexpectedly have to deal with in the city he visits in Part III?

4. Who is in Eva's apartment for the first time that Emilia can see through the kentuki in Part III?

5. What seems to be the only think that interests Mister on the news?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Alina react when the kentuki seems to try to touch her breasts?

2. Why does Sven take a greater interest in Alina's kentuki in Part IV?

3. What does Klaus do to make it look like Emilia, acting through the kentuki, has been making trouble in Eva's hosue?

4. Why does Alina start to physically alter and abuse the kentuki in Part IV?

5. What would Alina have done if she had better understood what a kentuki was?

6. How does Nikolina lose her kentuki that she is a keeper for?

7. What does Emila see a visitor in Eva's apartment doing that really upsets her?

8. In Part III, what is the most disturbing experience Grigor has as a dweller?

9. Why does the Vancouver mother destroy her new kentuki within several minutes of connecting it?

10. What does the visitor in Eva's apartment do to her bunny kentuki that terrifies Emilia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Eider, at the nursing home in Barcelona, suspect that the kentukis they have bought for the residents there have disconnected themselves deliberately? What do you think Schweblin is trying to communicate to the reader about the motivations of kentuki dwellers through this vignette? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions?

Essay Topic 2

How do the circumstances surrounding Cheng Shi-Xu's forced kentuki connection severance illustrate some of the potentially violent real-life and real-world consequences of communications between dwellers and keepers, or even between two dwellers who communicate in the real world? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Emilia takes the step to speak to Klaus, Eva's boyfriend, before she ever speaks to Eva? What are Emilia's range of feelings about Klaus from when she first sees him as a dweller to when she begins speaking to him on the phone? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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