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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. Where was the Charter village where Quig was born and raised?

2. How far does Fan take Hilton in the car in Chapter 12?

3. In Chapter 6, how much longer is the life span of Charters as compared to the people of B-Mor?

4. In Chapter 8, what is the name of the seasoned tank diver who has to retire because of a diagnosis of terminal illness?

5. In Chapter 4, what does Quig use to splint Fan's leg?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Quig leave the inn alone at the end of Chapter 11?

2. In Chapter 2, what was different about the immigration of the narrator's predecessors to B-Mor?

3. In Chapter 10, how did Quig lose his livelihood overnight?

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

5. What did Quig do in a Charter village and why did he have to leave?

6. In Chapter 8, what happens in the parks one day in B-Mor and why is that unusual?

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

8. At the end of Chapter 4, what happens after Fan makes a mess in the storage closet where she is put after arriving at Quig's place?

9. How is the landscape outside the compound in Chapter 7 different from what Fan expects?

10. In Chapter 9, why do Quig, Loreen, and Fan take a trip up north?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

On the surface life in B-Mor seems a placid and pleasant place to live. What does life seem to be like in B-Mor? What is life really like there? How are appearances and reality deceiving when it comes to living in B-Mor?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

There is a very strict class structure in the communities in the novel. What does Fan’s departure from B-Mor reveal about the ability to move from one community to another? Would Fan have been allowed to just walk into a Charter village and settle there? How rigid is the class structure in the novel? How does the class structure affect life in the novel?

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