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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 Levine learn about Mime?

2. What happens to the virus?

3. How deep is the pool of water?

4. Where is the access to Brent's personal cypherspace?

5. How does Brent refer to himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Brent tell Levine when Levine begs him not to let the army have the virus?

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

3. What does Guy see that leads him to realize that there is a widespread problem with PurBlood?

4. How does Carson finally manage to find the watering hole?

5. What do Carson and de Vaca discover when they return to the lab?

6. What does Nye do to try to stop them?

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

8. How does Carson manage to get the better of Nye on several different occasions?

9. What is Nye's relationship to the voice he hears, and how is this significant?

10. What does Carson find in Nye's saddlebags, and what mystery does this clear up?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Carson's assistant Susana de Vaca has a way of getting under his skin. How does she do that? Why does she persist in that behavior when she knows that it makes him angry? Despite his anger, how does the teasing by de Vaca tie into their survival later in the desert? Without this knowledge, Carson and de Vaca would likely not have survived their ordeal. Who do they owe their survival to and in how many instances was information from this person a direct benefit to them in their desert struggle?

Essay Topic 2

What happens after the game Brent and Charles play that creates an immediate bond between them? Why is Brent fearful, and how does Charles take control of the situation? What arrangements do they make together to ensure that their accident is not one that is a worldwide catastrophe? What is their last act of philanthropy? What is Brent's last request to Charles and what does Charles have to do in order to comply?

Essay Topic 3

Brent Scopes is a genius who creates a computer program that is like nothing on earth. What is this program? Why is it so special? What sets it aside from other programs? Why is Scopes so secretive about his electronic breakthrough? What is he afraid he would lose by sharing this knowledge? Who is the only one who has been all the way inside this new system? What are his impressions?

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