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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. With which of the following does Chapter 5 of "Bad Chickens / 2401" begin?
2. At which of the following schools does Mirella encounter Paul?
3. What is the name of Mirella’s late husband?
4. From whom does Edwin take art lessons?
5. Which of the following does Mirella claim to have done when her lover asks her what she had been doing that day?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Talia cite as a historical constant?
2. In the novel, what is the simulation hypothesis?
3. What about Roberts’s accent confuses Edwin?
4. What quote from Olive’s book does she see tattooed on her readers’ arms?
5. How does Olive react to her driver’s question about being on book tour with a daughter at home?
6. How is Caiette described when Thomas and Edwin reach it?
7. What reason does Olive note for her reticence with Aretta?
8. What explanation is given for the labeling of Colony Two as Night City?
9. What paradox about her book tour does Olive realize while in Salt Lake City?
10. How does Zoey note that those who deliberately change the timeline are handled?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does Sea of Tranquility bear as much out?
Essay Topic 2
Olive observes that “Sometimes order can be relentless” (68). Does the novel support or deny the observation? What in the novel indicates as much, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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