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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 can Lindsay not help but do after Gomez leaves?

2. With what are the dogs barraged?

3. What has killed the Queen?

4. What does Spider Rose decide the pet is?

5. What does Nikolai begin to resent?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had Pongpianskul attempted to do, and failed?

2. Why does Nikolai retire and commit suicide?

3. How has Spider Rose's pet helped her overcome issues?

4. Why isn't intelligence a survival trait?

5. Why is the Queen's departure the death knell for CK?

6. What makes it clear that the Investors hadn't intended to trade their pet?

7. Why is winter the season for pruning the sunken gardens?

8. What does Nikolai do in order to upset the Mechanist?

9. How is the killing of the people originally justified?

10. How does Mirasol view the orbiting city? Why does she feel this way?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the Investors way regarding business. Compare it with the way business models are done in our world. What are some of the main differences? Some similarities? Would the Investors way of doing business succeed on Earth? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Constantine and Lindsay's relationship. What is the catalyst that threw the two friends apart? For what reason does this relationship continue to stay soured? Utilizing quotes from the book, draw a detailed character analysis of the two as friends and as enemies.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the Investors and the unity that formed against them. How is this unity rallied and agreed upon? What is the catalyst, and how is this evident to the reader? What would be required for the Investors to become the primary political force? Would this occur? Why or why not?

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