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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 do the station crew note missing?

2. Therese asks Roman if he ever feels what?

3. Over which desert is the station noted to pass?

4. From which of the following does a member of the station crew hail?

5. Which of the following graces the wall of the Russian quarters?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chie note as the most common fate of dagashiya?

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

3. Why is the southern tip of Spain reflective?

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

5. Why do station crew have trouble moving their limbs?

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

7. Why do the station crew disregard the signs restricting toilet use on the station?

8. Why does Anton conceal the lump he finds on himself?

9. Why do station crew retrieve orbital litter?

10. Why do the station crew turn somersaults?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does Orbital bear as much out?

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