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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 the novel juxtapose with exhilaration?

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

3. In which of the following are station crew reported to have trained?

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

5. Which of the following do Roman and Anton have in their stores?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the station crew turn somersaults?

2. How does Anton realize his marriage is loveless?

3. Why do the station crew eschew reading the news?

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

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

6. Why do station crew retrieve orbital litter?

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

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

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

10. Why had Nell’s husband sent her food?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. How might the novel be sectioned off other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?

Essay Topic 3

Ultimately, what does the novel say about interpreting works of art, irrespective of medium? What in the text says as much? How does the text say it?

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