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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. How many hours does Olive’s flight back to the moon take?

2. With which of the following does Chapter 7 of "Anomaly" begin?

3. From what does Mirella die?

4. With which of the following does Chapter 4 of "Remittance / 1918, 1990, 2008" begin?

5. How much of Colony Two dies from the pandemic Olive avoids?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason does Gaspery realize offenders against the Time Institute are lost in time?

2. What is the actual reason Edwin spends much time walking after his military service?

3. Why does Gaspery note that the people in New York City are comfortable touching each other when he encounters Vincent there?

4. What reason for the popularity of postapocalyptic literature does Olive arrive at?

5. Gaspery finds the source of a quotation from Olive’s novel while in prison. What is the source?

6. What examples of waking up in a new world does Olive rehearse as she returns to the moon from Earth?

7. How does Gaspery know he will encounter Vincent in New York City?

8. Why does Talia not remain with Zoey?

9. What prompts Gaspery to undergo facial reconstruction?

10. What does Zoey note to Gaspery happened to her after his dismissal from the Time Institute?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assuming that Sea of Tranquility should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

At a dinner party early in the novel, Edwin inveighs against British colonial practice. For it, he is sent away from his home, although he continues to be supported by his family. In all, what attitude toward colonial practice does the novels present? How does it do so?

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