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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. Per “Sixteen Metaphors,” what does “rejection” mean?

2. What college does Bee attend?

3. What medication does Bee take?

4. What government agency is invoked among the metaphors?

5. What is the decried neighbor doing in the thirteenth metaphor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Max’s “solo debate club” (144)?

2. How does Max intend to ensure the success of his population control scheme?

3. Why does Max demur in helping Alison find a new place to live?

4. Why did Bee’s mother pinch Bee’s nose?

5. How does Bee describe Kant?

6. Why does Max ask his dates whether they paid for their college?

7. What is the unfairness of the sixth metaphor?

8. What bothers Bee about Bee’s adolescent conformity?

9. Why does Bee recognize using a math metaphor is bad rhetoric?

10. What is reported to matter least among the metaphors (247)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assuming that Rejection should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

In the anthology, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the anthology? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the anthology? How does Rejection bear as much out?

Essay Topic 3

Similarly, the lengths of stories and sections influence reading. What pattern of length is present in the anthology, if any? What effect does the length of sections have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

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