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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. Which of the following games does Edwin favor playing?

2. At which of the following hotels does Gaspery find employment?

3. In which hotel does Olive stay while in Texas?

4. How old does Zoey turn on the day she summons Gaspery to her office?

5. To which of the following does Vincent’s husband flee after his perfidy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What secret does Mirella confide in the fortune teller?

2. What reason does Olive note for her reticence with Aretta?

3. How is Edwin’s father reported to have described his first encounter with Britain?

4. In what line of work is Mirella employed when she seeks out Vincent again?

5. How does Zoey note that those who deliberately change the timeline are handled?

6. How is Caiette described when Thomas and Edwin reach it?

7. What justifications does Gaspery give for his inclusion in the investigation into temporal anomalies?

8. What metric does Talia assert the Time Institute uses to determine if a historical event needs correction?

9. How is Vincent believed to have died?

10. How had Mirella known Vincent?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what extent is biographical criticism—broadly, a reading strategy that attempts to interpret the novel through its correspondences with the figures and events in its authors’ lives—appropriate to apply to Sea of Tranquility? What in the novel and the author’s background suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 3

St. John Mandel has published several novels, of which the most prominent is Station Eleven. How does the current novel compare to her earlier work?

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