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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 is strange about what Fiffany says in news interviews after Byron as declared Hazel missing and likely dead?

2. What does Hazel's father say when she tells him they should go to the Gogol medical facilities?

3. What does Liver offer to do to ensure nobody tampers with Hazel's father's body?

4. What are the Dolphin Savior's fans called?

5. Where does Hazel find work in Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hazel give Liver her father's sex dolls?

2. What do Jasper and Hazel do in her motel room at the end of the story after she finds him waiting for her outside the diner?

3. How are Jasper's feelings toward Voda different from other woman he has dated?

4. Why does Hazel come to think that Liver is dead in Chapter 13?

5. What do Liver, Jasper, and Hazel decide they will do with Hazel's father's body?

6. What do Jasper and Hazel realize they have in common as they drive away from the burial site in Chapter 20?

7. What does Hazel plan to do with Byron's electronics and why?

8. Why is Jasper at Gogol headquarter in Chapter 15?

9. What does Jasper do to prepare to take Bella from the Oceanarium?

10. Why does Hazel's father refuse Byron's offer for state of the art medical treatment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Nutting’s focus on the theme of technology as presented in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about the role of the personification of technology in the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Away from the main characters examine the way the author uses the other characters in the story. When does she introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

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