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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 color square is used to test the station crew’s sense of time?

2. Which of the following does the novel juxtapose with exhilaration?

3. Which of the following does the novel juxtapose with rapture?

4. Approximately how many miles above the earth is the station?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the novel note shapes the planet?

2. To what does Roman ascribe the feeling of déjà vu station crew have for spacewalking?

3. What does Shaun note is the only thing that humans can do other animals cannot?

4. Why are there signs restricting toilet use on the station?

5. What does Nell find when vacuuming the air vents?

6. How are station crew advised to acclimate themselves to spacewalks?

7. What does the novel posit as the fate of the earth?

8. Why do the station crew turn somersaults?

9. Why is the southern tip of Spain reflective?

10. Why do station crew retrieve orbital litter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

What purpose is served by the novel’s note of the station’s deterioration? How is that purpose served? What effect does it have on reading?

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