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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 11 of "Anomaly" begin?
2. With which of the following does Chapter 2 of "Remittance / 1918, 1990, 2008" begin?
3. When does Olive’s husband typically start work?
4. With which of the following does Chapter 4 of "Mirella and Vincent / file corruption" begin?
5. What does Mariam offer Gaspery following surgery?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Gaspery note that the people in New York City are comfortable touching each other when he encounters Vincent there?
2. What reason for the popularity of postapocalyptic literature does Olive arrive at?
3. What examples of waking up in a new world does Olive rehearse as she returns to the moon from Earth?
4. How does Gaspery know he will encounter Vincent in New York City?
5. How does Olive gloss the flight from Earth to the moon?
6. To what does Gaspery liken having warned Olive of her coming death?
7. What is the public reason Edwin spends much time walking after his military service?
8. Ultimately, at what response to the simulation hypothesis does Gaspery arrive?
9. For what reason does Gaspery realize offenders against the Time Institute are lost in time?
10. For what reason does Zoey note that Gaspery is not simply lost in time after preserving Olive’s life?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Similarly, there are issues of differing formatting throughout the text. What function do the shifts in the text’s formatting serve, and how do those functions become clear?
Essay Topic 2
To what genre other than science fiction might Sea of Tranquility be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
For the first-person sections of the novel, how reliable is the narrator? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?
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