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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. In what river does Chie note having swam as a child?

2. How many connecting modules compose the station?

3. At what time does the moon mission launch?

4. What kind of atlas does Shaun note?

5. To the treatment of what is Anton’s treatment of his experimental cells compared?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the novel describe the beginning of the typhoon?

2. How does Pietro regard being an astronaut?

3. What cardiovascular effects are noted on the station crew?

4. What is it that prompts the fisherman to realize his children’s beauty?

5. Why had the moon mission astronauts been treated to a special meal on their last night on earth?

6. Why are the station crew advised to anchor themselves in time?

7. What question does the novel posit aliens might ask about the presence of the station and missions on it?

8. How are the cells with which Anton and Roman work derived?

9. Why does Anton posit his brain repeats dreams?

10. Why must the station crew exercise for hours daily?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What character is the protagonist of Orbital? How does the novel support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of Orbital. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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