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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 does Maelcum save Case?

2. Who does Molly first encounter in Straylight?

3. What is riding the cart that arrives for Case and Maelcum?

4. What can Wintermute never know?

5. Why does 3Jane find Riviera boring?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the story end? What happens to Case?

2. What happens to the Turing agents?

3. What does Wintermute warn Case about at the end of the chapter?

4. How does Molly get her revenge on Riviera?

5. What do you think the code word is?

6. How does Wintermute get Case and Maelcum into the Straylight?

7. How is Straylight described to Case?

8. How is Case tricked in this chapter?

9. How does Case find strength within himself?

10. What happens to Armitage in this chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on the role of technology in the human search for immortality. Be sure to address:

1) Possible applications of technology to extend human life, i.e., electronic encoding of the brain, medical science, cybernetics, etc.

2) Social, economic, and demographical effects of living forever.

3) Other methods, either scientific or mystical, by which humans have attempted to gain immortality.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing the symbiotic relationship that humanity has with technology. Be sure to address:

1) Why man needs machine, and why machine needs man.

2) The advantages of using technology.

3) The dangers of giving too much control of our world to machines.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining the negative aspects of technology described in Neuromancer:

1) Warnings about technology in Neuromancer, and how the book could be interpreted as being anti-technology.

2) Aspects of technological problems that the book predicts that are coming true or have already come true.

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