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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 does Mirella marry?

2. What is the name of the game of pretend Olive plays with her daughter?

3. With which of the following does Chapter 1 of "Remittance / 1918, 1990, 2008" begin?

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

5. With which of the following does Chapter 5 of "Remittance / 1918, 1990, 2008" begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What clues does Olive have that Gaspery’s magazine assignment is a cover?

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

3. What is the public reason Edwin spends much time walking after his military service?

4. For what reason does Gaspery note some regret at preserving Olive’s life?

5. To what does Gaspery liken having warned Olive of her coming death?

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

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

8. How does Olive gloss the flight from Earth to the moon?

9. What objections to forest sounds does Gaspery note?

10. What admonition does Gaspery leave with Edwin about disclosing information regarding the anomaly?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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