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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. Where had Rafi’s sister wanted to go?

2. Which artist’s work had Todd’s father owned?

3. Where was Wen Lai born?

4. From what country had the Queen’s husband come?

5. Which of the following genres does the Queen have at her command?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What dangers confront Evie as she dives for her war-operation assignment?

3. What does Todd note about eggplant?

4. What is Ina’s master’s project in art?

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

6. How does the novel describe the defeat by Deep Blue of Kasparov?

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

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

9. Why does Evie not explore her true romantic impulses?

10. Why does Rafi take a college course in European Literary Modernism while still in high school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

The lengths of sections influence reading. What pattern of section-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

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