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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. The comment that “Back at HQ, it’s as if a giant virtual boot has kicked over the anthill” (180) offers an example of which of the following?

2. Which of the following does Liz note contributed to the background documentation for Babylon?

3. Which of the following does Kemal exclude from his definition of artificial intelligence?

4. Which of the following books does the Toymaker note was present when he was living with his uncle Albert?

5. Which of the following percentages does Anwar note as the Kyrgyzstani population that broke off into Issyk-Kulistan?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does MacDonald explain “steering people” (308)?

2. What preparations does Dorothy make in her hotel room against a possible teleconference (272)?

3. How does Liz characterize “the besetting cognitive error of any senior officer confronted by too much data” (217)?

4. To what does MacDonald note his former associate compared ATHENA?

5. What reason does Dorothy give for avoiding a weekday assignation with Liz (272)?

6. How does Anwar characterize the demands of talking to police?

7. What reasons does Anwar note for pitying his fellow inmates in Saughton (186)?

8. What warnings does MacDonald tacitly offer Liz and Kemal about ATHENA?

9. How does the Toymaker outfit himself for his date with Dorothy?

10. What reasons does Liz cite for consultants seeking to reduce the presence of police officers in the field?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is to be made of the parallels in phrasing between Liz and the Toymaker in the ninth and tenth chapter (both remark that “Once is happenstance, but twice is enemy action” and that “Someone’s going to bleed for this. And it’s not going to be you”)? How does that significance emerge?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the significance of the name “Operation Babylon” for the coordinated murder investigations that begin in “LIZ: Snowballing Hell.”

Essay Topic 3

Anwar notes his phone translating a Russian-language phrase as “impact in ten minutes” (23). What narrative effect does the translation have? How is that effect achieved?

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