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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 had been Todd’s supervisor?

2. Which of the following authors does Todd note reading?

3. What make of car does Todd’s father buy for him?

4. Which of the following poets does Rafi treat in his master’s thesis?

5. What is the name of Rafi’s mother’s supervisor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the chief objections to developing Makatea?

2. To what does the Queen ascribe Evie’s ability to dance?

3. What had been Didier’s goal in office?

4. Why does Rafi initially intend to attend community college?

5. What is Todd’s company slogan (301)?

6. What coda does Evie hope to witness from helping the manta ray?

7. What had Todd’s father said about a person’s worth and character?

8. Why does Rafi obsess over editing his master’s thesis?

9. What privileges does the Queen associate with her title?

10. What do journalists pointedly not report about Evie’s Tektite II mission?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assuming that Playground should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Playground? By which groups? Why?

Essay Topic 3

What is to be made of Rafi’s predilection for reading medievalist and fantasy works? Why is that the conclusion to draw about it? What in the text supports the idea, and how does it do so?

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