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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 Leslie suggest she and Richard do to learn more about Dave and his wife?

2. What is the name of the woman flying the fighter plane who is an alternate Leslie?

3. What does Lorraine suggest she and Dave do with the time they have left together?

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

5. How does Leslie describe the afterlife in Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the setting of the wilderness planet.

4. Who is Marshara?

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

6. How did Leslie and Richard experience the passage of time differently when Leslie was dead?

7. What happens when Growly crashes into the water?

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

9. What does Ronnie tell Leslie in Yosemite?

10. What do Leslie and Richard learn from eavesdropping on Lorraine and Dave?

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

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 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?

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