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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 country does Richard's alternate self represent in the fighter plane competition?

2. What are Leslie and Richard celebrating at the beginning of Chapter 19?

3. What surprising activity does Dave want to do before he dies?

4. What style jacket does the line-boy wear?

5. What does Ronnie say he'll show up as if they ever meet again?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the setting of the wilderness planet.

2. How does Leslie influence Richard to focus and use his will to change the outcome of the crash?

3. What is special about the restaurant that Leslie and Richard eat in after they arrive in Santa Monica?

4. Who does Leslie encounter in the afterlife?

5. What does Lorraine encourage Dave to do in these last months of his life?

6. What symbol do Leslie and Richard see in the water that marks their entry back home?

7. What does Ronnie tell Leslie in Yosemite?

8. What does Pye tell Leslie and Richard is the reason she left them to fly alone?

9. How do Richard and Leslie reunite?

10. What does Leslie realize might be one more test or challenge in the pattern?

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

How does Dave change from feeling bitter about his life to seeing possibilities in the months he has left? How does Lorraine help him see life in new way? In what ways does Dave's experience influence Richard and Leslie to live differently when they return home?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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