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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 the narrator awake to at the beginning of Chapter 3?

2. Where does Edith Leete invite Julian for diner?

3. What about Edith calms Julian?

4. Why is Julian surprised when the waiter is so pleasant?

5. What does the narrator say Human history is?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is publishing handled and financed in 2000?

2. Why does Julian feel so alone?

3. What is women's role in the workforce in 2000?

4. Why is the industrial army not allowed to vote for president?

5. What does Julian find when he wakes up in Chapter 28?

6. Edith is curious about how women shopped in the 19th century. What does Julian say about this?

7. What is the function of the invalid corps?

8. What do citizens in 2000 do after retirement?

9. Why is Julian celebratory when the Leetes take him to the library?

10. Why are savings no longer necessary?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explore the philosophy of equality in this society. How is this concept put to the test in terms the diversity of the citizens? Why does this society not experience discrimination that would have been so prevalent in 1887?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one factor of society as it is discussed in 2000. Write an argument for why the ways of that factors are not practical or would not work in reality and an argument for why or how it would work.

Essay Topic 3

While in 2000, Julian visits his old home and sleeping chamber. During one visit he finds a safe that he know contains gold. What is the irony of this finding? How is this finding insignificant? How would this finding be perceived if found in 1887?

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