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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. How do they escape the compound?

2. How does Carson respond?

3. What help routine gets Levine through Cyberspace?

4. What do the circling vultures mean to Carson?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Brent is disappointed and confused. Why?

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

4. Mime agrees to help Levine get access to GeneDyne but refuses to do so in person. Why?

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

6. How do Charles and Brent finally resolve things?

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

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

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

10. What does Charles try to convince Brent of and how does Brent respond?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where do Guy and Susana go in the autumn? What is significant about this trip? When they stop at Mount Dragon, their conversation surrounds their colleagues. What does Guy reveal to Susana regarding the PurBlood test group? How does she react to his expression of empathy? What is their destination? Why does Susana urge Guy to take this trip? What is it that is so important to her?

Essay Topic 2

What are the details of the lawsuit filed against Dr. Levine by GeneDyne? How does Levine believe the lawsuit is linked to his patent with Brent Scopes? What is the issue that surrounds the current renewal that is pending? Why is it unlikely that the two former friends will be unable to come to an agreement regarding the patents renewal?

Essay Topic 3

What patent does Charles Levine refuse to renew with Brent Scopes? What is so special about this patent? Why is Charles so dead set against renewal of this patent when he coauthored it to begin with? What were the circumstances that led to his releasing the patent to Scopes the first time? What irony has them repeating the same circumstances so many years later for basically the same reason? What did Charles want to do with their discovery in the beginning and why is it ironic that Brent Scopes is considered to be a philanthropist?

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