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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 is Josh Winkler's partner's name?

2. It is against the law to do what in the cemetery?

3. Rick Diehl discovers that his what has been stolen?

4. Who is Brad the nephew of?

5. Frank believed what about the frequent tests?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Frank Burnet suing the Regents of the University of California?

2. Brad Gordon is visited by a beautiful woman who reminds him how helpful his uncle has always been to him. To pay him back, the woman instructs Brad to contaminate the Burnet cell line at BioGen. Brad agrees. What further insight does that give into Brad's character?

3. Explain how greed motivates Josh and Rick in this section with regards to the maturity gene.

4. Explain how Dr. Bellarmino shows conflicting attitude is this section of the book.

5. Explain how Robert Bellarmino is introduced and what it could mean for future chapters.

6. How does BioGen try to discredit Frank?

7. Explain Alex Burnet's feelings about the court case against her father.

8. Brad Gordon is the inept security guard at BioGen. He only has the job because his uncle is Jack Watson, an investor in the company. Do you agree with Brad being given the job at BioGen or relatives being given jobs, in general, in real life?

9. Do you agree with the hospital's reaction of destroying the remaining tissues in the Weller case when Emily Weller requests her own investigation?

10. How does a previous incident with Brad come up in this section?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose three important lessons that you learned from the book as a whole. Describe what those lessons are, when you learned them and why you feel that they are important. Some examples of topics include:

Animal testing

Human DNA experimentation

Bounty hunting

Legal rights

Stealing

Lying

Essay Topic 2

Answer the following questions about Henry's wife, Lynn, using examples from the story:

1. How did Lynn originally feel about Dave's arrival at the house?

2. By the end of the story, how did Lynn feel about Dave?

3. If you were Lynn, how would you feel about Dave? (Include both the fact that Dave is a chimp hybrid and the fact that he is not related to Lynn herself at all and she is now expected to help raise him.)

4. In your opinion, should Henry have told Lynn about Dave ahead of time? What might have happened if he had?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the book, Brad is used as a sort of means to an end. His uncle, Jack, is a major investor in BioGen, and, as a result, Brad is the security guard. Soon after Rick's car is stolen from the lot, though. Brad becomes the target of a setup. Answer the following questions about Brad:

1. What is the relationship between Brad and his uncle like? Does it change throughout the book? If so, in what way.

2. Using examples from the story, explain whether or not you feel that Brad was a mere puppet in the story or that he made conscious decisions that led him to each problem he encountered.

3. Do you feel that the story would have been jsut as good if Brad didn't exist in it? Why or why not?

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