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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's alternate self invite Leslie and Richard to do in Chapter 12?

2. What symbol does Richard see in the water at the beginning of Chapter 20?

3. What do Leslie and Richard discover about Mashara?

4. In Chapter 19, what does Leslie say that Pye told them to use to guide themselves home?

5. What does Ronnie call himself in Chapter18?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Ronnie tell Leslie in Yosemite?

3. As Richard's alternate self, how is Krys described?

4. What does Richard learn from his alternate self when he imagines talking with him?

5. What are Air Games?

6. Who is Marshara?

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

8. What happens when Growly crashes into the water?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do Leslie and Richard's spacetime travels show us about choice and destiny? Do their experiences suggest they can create a different reality just by making different choices? How so? Use textual examples to support your ideas.

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

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?

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