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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 Carson use to replace electrolytes?

2. What do weekly physicals reveal?

3. Who interviews Brent Scopes?

4. What happens to the virus?

5. What are they looking for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Susana save Carson from death and both of them from Nye?

2. What does Susana convince Guy has to be done before they escape?

3. What is the game that Brent and Charles play and how is it won?

4. When Brent loses this time, how does he respond? How is his response similar to how Levine felt when he lost the first time?

5. Brent is disappointed and confused. Why?

6. How do Charles and Brent finally resolve things?

7. What does Brent use as personal passwords and why are they so effective?

8. What is the last thing Charles does as the guards arrive at the elevator and why?

9. How does Nye realize he must go after Carson and de Vaca, and what is his undoing?

10. What important discovery do Carson and de Vaca make when they find Dr. Burt's missing notebook?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

How does Carson manage to elude Nye when they are in the desert? What skills does Carson rely on that were passed down to him, and to whom does he owe his survival to? What actions are directly related to conversations with family in the past? How many times does Carson manage to elude, distract or slow down Nye in his attempt to catch and kill Carson and de Vaca and what methods does he employ to do so? What chances of survival would they have had without his familial knowledge?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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