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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 do they natives think of Louis and the crew?

2. Why does Louis jump from city-to-city and time zone-to-time zone in Chapter 1?

3. What does Nessus use to kill one of the native attackers in the city?

4. How many wars were the humans able to defeat the kzin in?

5. How many heads does Nessus have?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Louis feel about the possibility of Teela joining the mission?

2. What realization about Teela does Louis come to in Chapter 4?

3. What does Louis Wu do on this birthday and why?

4. What does the crew observe about Ringworld as they approach in the Liar?

5. Why has Teela decided to join the mission?

6. How do the different characters handle the stress of their situation of crash landing on a foreign planet in Chapter 11?

7. Please describe the flycycles.

8. What is the result of Nessus's search in Chapter 3?

9. What does the crew decide to do after crashing onto the Ringworld?

10. How is the Kemplar rosette described in Chapter 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Symbolism is a widely used literary tool. What is symbolism and how is it used in the story Ringworld?

Essay Topic 2

Please explain what conflict is in a work of literature. What types of conflict can be seen in Ringworld and what, if anything, is the main conflict of the story?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the story, we see various individuals fighting for leadership on the mission to Ringworld. What do you think truly makes a person a leader? Who do they believe was the true leader on the mission to Ringworld and why?

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