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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 was the cause John identified for problems with the Microvision game?
2. What happened to John's work on Dark Tower?
3. What did John do to make sure that the thing he was afraid of did not come about?
4. What was the reward that signaled John's success?
5. What did John have to do with Dark Tower?
Short Essay Questions
1. What hope did John nourish, as he moved back to Amherst?
2. Describe the birth of John's son.
3. What does John say about his relationships while he was on the road?
4. What was John afraid of when his son was born?
5. What precedent does John say there is in his family for divorce?
6. Describe the conditions under which John learned that he had Asperger's syndrome.
7. What does John say about his difficulty with small-talk?
8. What kinds of special effects did John Robison create for KISS?
9. How does John characterize his relation with machines?
10. Describe the job John took when he returned to the U.S.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 2
If you could resemble John Robison in one way, what trait of his would you chose to resemble? Why not other traits?
Essay Topic 3
Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.
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