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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. What job does Ina have after completing her master’s project?

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

3. How long is Profunda on Makatea before the referendum?

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

5. What is the name of Evie’s pilot?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What salvation did the Queen receive from her work away from Makatea?

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

4. Why does Evie hesitate to take an assignment from the National Geographic Society?

5. Why does the Queen make a point of calling on Wen Lai?

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

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

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

9. How does Bart occupy himself while Evie is away on research before completing her dissertation?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the cosmogyny expressed in the first two sections of the novel. What does it explain in your world? What does it fail to explain? How?

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. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

Essay Topic 3

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

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