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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. Which of the following does Shaun report having had on a poster?

2. Which exercise equipment does Pietro use?

3. Over which of the following is the station noted to pass?

4. Whom does the novel credit with designing the map at its beginning?

5. How many connecting modules compose the station?

Short Essay Questions

1. What question does Shaun’s teacher ask about Las Meninas?

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

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

4. Why are the station crew not allowed new underwear daily?

5. Per the novel, why were the Voyager probes sent out?

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

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

8. Why is Anton persistently tired?

9. Why does Chie have skin emollient?

10. Where do lost things on the station go, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sources attest to the presence of Orbital on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Harvey’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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