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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 gift does Leslie have that Pye says she blocked from her mind as a young child?

2. In what city is the seventeen-year-old Leslie giving a recital?

3. What does Richard want to convince his younger self to do in Chapter 7?

4. What does Leslie's mother send to New York in Chapter 5?

5. What runs through Leslie's body in the hotel hallway?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the conflict between the younger Leslie and her mother.

2. What does Pye tell Richard and Leslie about where they are?

3. Why does Leslie enter the tent in the desert?

4. How does Leslie rely on her intuition?

5. Describe how Richard and Leslie learn that Tink is the idea fairy.

6. What important concept does Richard think about on the mountainside after Le Clerc has left them alone?

7. Where are Richard and Leslie flying to when their world changes?

8. Why is Leslie proud of her younger self?

9. How did Tink influence Richard psychically regarding his first novel?

10. Why does Leslie burn the sheaf of papers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What kind of relationship do Leslie and Richard have at the beginning of the novel? How does it deepen and strengthen as they share a spacetime journey? In what way does their relationship change after they are reunited?

Essay Topic 2

What is the author's viewpoint about humanity's ability to keep the earth safe? How does he use the character of Mashara as a symbol of protector? What does it suggest that she is a computer?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the importance of Pye's character in this novel. What role does she play and what do Richard and Leslie think of her? How do they feel about flying without her?

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