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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. To which of the following are the station crew compared by mission control?

2. How does the novel gloss “zabudem, ladno”?

3. For how many seconds do station crew guess the colored square appears?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Pietro note the fisherman’s children know that their parents do not know or do not care to know?

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

4. What does the novel note shapes the planet?

5. Why do station crew retrieve orbital litter?

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

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

8. Why are the station crew glad surveillance is stopped at night?

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

10. Why does Anton bring crackers and salt to the station?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider Shaun’s discussion of the future of humanity in Orbit 11. Is he right? What in the text and in experience lead you to believe as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

How does Orbital consider the tension between restraint and freedom? That is, what does the novel say about how the concepts interact with one another? What in the text does the saying, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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

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