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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 does Richard say he was once terrified of in Chapter 1?

2. Who is Pye?

3. Where does Richard say he gets his ideas from?

4. What was the name of Richard's dog when he was a child?

5. What question does Richard ask Attila that makes him act violently?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happens when Richard and Leslie feel an earthquake.

2. Describe what happens when Richard and Leslie are flying and Richard bends down to fix the squawk box.

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

4. What does Richard tell the young man he talks with at William's Air Force base?

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

6. How do Richard and Leslie feel when Pye leaves them to fly alone?

7. Describe Attila the Hun's reasons for his violent behavior.

8. What does Leslie tell young Richard about when they will meet?

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

10. How does Leslie rely on her intuition?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how Leslie and Richard reunite after the plane crash. What do they have to believe in in order to get past the wall of Richard's grief? How is Leslie able to breach the wall and help Richard create a new reality?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Who is the idea fairy? How does she express to Leslie and Richard where ideas come from? How has she been an important influence in Richard and Leslie's lives?

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