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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 Evie see during her war-operation dive?

2. Where does Todd go to college?

3. In what year had Cousteau built the Starfish House?

4. Where does Ina go after graduate school?

5. Which of the following is the first to speak against the investors’ presentation for Makatea?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is Todd’s refuge on campus as a freshman?

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

7. What are the chief objections to developing Makatea?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of Playground. What in the text indicates as much? 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

To what genre other than literary fiction might Playground be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

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