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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. In which of the following is Jackson reported to live?
2. The comment that the Gnome is “Bent as a seven-bob note” (20) offers an example of which of the following?
3. Which of the following databases does Liz note needing to initialize regarding Blair’s death?
4. Who says the phrase, “You realized it was a shoo-in when you clocked you were the only candidate they’d bothered to fly out for the interview” (27)?
5. Which of the following is identified as the useful cofactor for the Issyk-Kulistan bread mix?
Short Essay Questions
1. What, per Liz, is the “first law of detection,” and what does it mean (38)?
2. How is Liz’s police unit justified?
3. How does Liz characterize pre-1990s policing?
4. How does Christie plan to leave his identity behind?
5. What reasons does the Toymaker give for avoiding travel by plane?
6. What reason does the Gnome give for calling Scotland a “play-state” (21)?
7. What materials does Anwar note receiving to commence his consular duties?
8. What is noted as the first pseudo-nation, and what are its circumstances?
9. What job does Tariq offer Anwar in the novel?
10. What does Anwar note occupies his cellar?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explicate the insult offered to Anwar at the Georgian consulate. That is, how is the insult offered, and how does it function as an insult?
Essay Topic 2
Liz remarks on “what the folks writing the exams laughably call the real world” (14). What cause does she have to describe the phrasing as laughable? How does it justify the description?
Essay Topic 3
At more than one point in the novel, the comment is made about ethics being “not just a country next door to Sussex”; it is noted as being a poor joke. Explicate the joke; what reference is being made, who would understand it, and why would that audience find it humorous?
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