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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 Mime take control of?

2. What is delivered to a helicopter in the desert?

3. What does Singer tell Carson about Levine and Brent?

4. Who does Carson see in the desert?

5. What dish is served for dinner that is questioned by some?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who assumes control after Rosalind is exposed and why?

2. Teece conducts his interviews in a manner similar to Sherlock Holmes. In which way is that statement true?

3. What event does Dr. Charles Levine disclose to his audience after he finishes a lecture at Harvard?

4. What does Gil Teece do when he arrives?

5. Why does Levine so adamantly refuse to renew the patent he and Brent co-author?

6. What background about Levine and Scopes does Singer share with Carson?

7. How does Mime force Guy to listen to Levine?

8. What does Carson see Nye doing and what is suspicious about his behavior?

9. What is significant about the satellite photos that Dr. Levine shows his lecture audience?

10. What does Nye do that upsets Carson and how does Carson deal with it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Mime and Charles enter Brent's personal cyberspace, how does Brent refer to this intrusion? What makes him believe that this is really the case? What is the motive Charles has for approaching Brent in this manner? What information is he trying to convey? In light of the recent events, is there another way that Charles could have approached Brent, and if so, what is it? What is Brent's reaction when Charles delivers his message and warnings?

Essay Topic 2

The character named Mime in this story suffers from a disease that is a direct result of drugs taken by his mother while she carried him. What is the physical ailment he suffers from? What did his mother take and why did she take it? How can a parallel be drawn from this example to the current battle that Charles Levine is fighting to stop the research being done at Mount Dragon?

Essay Topic 3

What prompts Susana to visit with Pavel? She goes there in the hopes that he can fix a problem for her, and in the process learns about something that will become a turning point for her. What does she learn, and how does she employ it later? Why isn't this common knowledge? If the company saw no need for this feature, why didn't they disconnect it entirely? Is there a chance that the company understood the risks of the research they were doing and if so, why would they have kept it a secret?

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