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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 is the half-life of Rhenium?

2. What year did IBM push xenon atoms around to form their company logo?

3. What is the one thing that the swarm fears?

4. What is the half-life of Selenium?

5. Which three characters survive the initial encounter with the swarms?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Jack and Ricky discussing when the alarm goes off?

2. Why is the swarm self-sustaining?

3. How does Jack find out that the swarm release into the desert was intentional?

4. Why is the team safest in the desert when the wind speed is high?

5. How is the manufactured swarm able to fly?

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

7. How does Jack react when he realizes that Xymos is using bacteria to create molecules?

8. How does Jack feel when he sees the swarms hunting in the desert for the first time?

9. Who does Jack see the swarm mimic when he is inside their nest?

10. How was the swarm able to evolve with Julia's help before Jack arrived at the facility?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Infidelity plays a major role in the protagonist's life in Prey. Jack thinks that Julia is having an affair from the beginning of the story. He has no concrete evidence and yet he is nearly positive that something strange is going on. Write an essay explaining the reasons why Jack thinks that Julia is having an affair. Provide specific examples from the text to support your position.

Essay Topic 2

Jack was in charge of a team of people when he worked for MediaTronics. He was responsible for developing PREDPREY and other programs. To him programming was a hot field and he was one of the leading people in it. Write an essay that explains the duties Jack was responsible for at his old job. What type of programming team did he lead? What sort of programs did his team develop? What types of things did he have to manage on a day-to-day basis? Did he enjoy being in charge of these things? Why or why not? Provide specific examples from the text to support your position.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining how Ricky's personality changes throughout the story. What types of things does he joke about when Jack catches him in the supermarket? How is Ricky's behavior much different after Jack reaches the facility? How does he treat Jack when they are working together? What types of suspicious things does he do that eventually leads Jack to suspect him? Provide specific examples from the text to support your position.

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