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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. In Chapter 11, from what country is one of the couples from at the Who Falls Inn?

2. In Chapter 6, what were an older couple caught raising in their basement?

3. What business did Quig start after he could no longer be a veterinarian?

4. In Chapter 5, what used to be Quig's job when he lived in a Charter village?

5. In Chapter 8, where do a group of retired and terminal people from B-Mor go on a trip?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 10, why were Quig and his wife banished from their Charter village?

2. In Chapter 1, what happened to Reg?

3. In Chapter 2, why did everyone have to leave Xixu City in New China?

4. At the end of Chapter 8, what do the narrators say would happen if the Charters start growing their own products?

5. What was Quig's background?

6. In Chapter 11, what is the place like where Quig and his family stay their first night on the road?

7. Toward the end of Chapter 9, why does Quig swerve on the road, and how does he explain what happened to Loreen?

8. In Chapter 1, who was Reg and what was he like?

9. Who is Eli and what does he look like in Chapter 7?

10. At the end of Chapter 6, what is said about Reg and Fan's relationship and what they did together?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are several symbiotic relationships in the novel. In what way is the relationship between Quig and the people living in his compound symbiotic? How is the relationship between the Charters and B-Mor symbiotic? What issues might develop if a symbiotic relationship breaks down? What is revealed about those problems when cracks develop in the relationship between B-Mor and the Charters?

Essay Topic 2

The novel is told from a first-person plural point of view. How does the way that the story is told affect what readers know and think of Fan? How does the point of view create a distance between readers and fan? How does using the first-person plural point of view affect the development of Fan’s story?

Essay Topic 3

When people get old and sick, medical care ceases and they are left to die. What seems to be the attitude toward the elderly in B-Mor? What value do the elderly have? Why are the elderly expected to give up their lives? What is revealed about the value of old age in the novel?

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