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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 3 of "Mirella and Vincent / 2020" begin?

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

3. Which of the following hosts the party at which Mirella rejoins her lover after fleeing Gaspery?

4. Which of the following is the name of an author Olive meets on her book tour?

5. How far into the ocean does Edwin wade?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What paradox about her book tour does Olive realize while in Salt Lake City?

3. What reason does Mirella give for finding her current lover less interesting than Vincent?

4. What reason does Roberts give for needing to fill in for Pike?

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

6. What project is Olive’s husband assigned?

7. What about Roberts’s accent confuses Edwin?

8. For what reason does Mirella’s husband end his own life?

9. What justification is given for the construction of space colonies?

10. How does Olive react to her driver’s question about being on book tour with a daughter at home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What attitude towards predetermination does the novel present? What in the text indicates as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Sources attest to the presence of Sea of Tranquility on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Sea of Tranquility? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

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