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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 has killed the Queen?

2. How do the gasbags communicate?

3. What is the prize for the war of the Sunken Gardens?

4. What can Lindsay not help but do after Gomez leaves?

5. What does Afriel wish to convey to the symbiote?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Wellspring dressed and why?

2. Why is the name "Fuzzy" a private joke?

3. What does Dr. Afriel say about humanity?

4. What is Lindsay convinced about, regardless of what Vera says, in terms of the rat?

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

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

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

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

9. What is unique about "Fuzzy"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the feuds against the Shapers. What characteristics make them so disliked? Who, specifically, doesn't like them and why? Do these presumed traits by enemies of the Shapers have merit? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Lindsay's parting gift to Kitsune. How is this gift more than a little morbid and psychopathic? How could it backfire on Lindsay? What is the problem with giving a being that is hungry for power more and more of it?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the political system on Dembowska. How is it easily misinterpreted by outsiders? Are they totally wrong in their assumptions? Why or why not? Explain whether or not this political system has an advantage over political systems on Earth.

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