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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. Who is the last character to speak in Chapter 21?

2. Who is Leslie crying about at the beginning of Chapter 12?

3. What does Richard dislike about Dave?

4. What does Richard hear Leslie saying to him in Chapter 17?

5. Where does Dave dream of traveling to in Europe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What promise does Leslie ask Richard to make if she dies first?

2. How does Leslie react to seeing the new media center?

3. Describe Linda's competitive nature.

4. Who is Marshara?

5. Who does Leslie encounter in the afterlife?

6. How does Richard's alternate self make an important change in his life after his wife leaves him?

7. How do Richard and Leslie reunite?

8. What does Richard tell Dave, the line-boy, at Santa Monica airport about the Seabird?

9. How does Richard feel when they land in a bar?

10. What do Leslie and Richard remember that Pye told them about guiding themselves home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Richard and Leslie's experience at the conference. Who do they find there? What ideas parallel their own experiences in spacetime? Why do Richard and Leslie agree to talk about their experience at the conference?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how the theme of love is used in this novel to transform characters and their lives. What opportunities does love open up to them? How does love provide the answers they seek?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Richard tries to influence his younger self to quit the Air Force. What example does he use to support his argument that a pilot is left feeling the loss of all those he has killed. What does he say about the military leading young men on?

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