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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. How does Jack feel when he learns the truth about the Xymos manufacturing process?

2. What does the team in the desert use to communicate?

3. How much electricity is generated by the field magnets in the main fabrication building?

4. Whose body goes missing shortly after they are killed?

5. Who wanted to test the swarm for intelligence early on before it started evolving?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the three survivors take shelter in the cars?

2. Why are the scientists unable to collect the units when they become deactivated at night when there is no sun to power them?

3. How is the manufactured swarm able to fly?

4. How do Jack and Mae kill off the swarms?

5. Why is the swarm self-sustaining?

6. What does Julia look like after Jack manages to separate the swarm from her body?

7. Why does Jack suspect that Ricky is more involved with the swarms than he is admitting?

8. Why does Jack have a hard time believing that the swarm is capable of eating its prey?

9. What is Charley's health like when he joins the team for dinner on Day 6?

10. Why does Jack decide to go back out into the desert once the sun goes down on Day 6?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Creating the units that make up a swarm takes a very delicate manufacturing process. Xymos has gone out of its way to create an assembly that is unlike any other. Write an essay explaining how the Xymos assembly process works. What materials does Xymos use to manufacture their units? Why is their process more like genetic engineering and less like nano manufacturing? What are the magnetic fields and cryogenic rooms used for? What is the product of the process and how does it fit into the whole? Provide specific examples from the text to support your position.

Essay Topic 2

Honesty is a trait that is scarcely found in the older characters in Prey. Jack is an honest man while Julia is a dishonest woman. The same goes for Mae and Ricky. Write an essay exploring the ideas of honesty and truth. How does honesty play into the plot of the story? Which characters are the most truthful, open, and honest? Which are the least truthful? Which are the most secretive? Why? Could being honest have saved the lives of some of the characters in Prey? Why or why not? Provide specific examples from the text to support your position.

Essay Topic 3

Several of the characters in Prey are overly concerned with accumulating wealth and success. Eventually these obsessions lead to their downfall. Write an essay explaining how wealth and success play into the lives of Jack, Julia, Ellen, Ricky, and others. Which characters strive the most to be wealthy and successful? Why? Which characters obsess to the point at which these elements become their downfall? Why? What happens to them? Provide specific examples from the text to support your position.

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