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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. What is the name of Gaspery’s dog?
3. In what month does Gaspery last visit Edwin?
4. In which of the following battles does Edwin’s second brother die?
5. With which of the following does Chapter 1 of "Anomaly" begin?
Short Essay Questions
1. Ultimately, at what response to the simulation hypothesis does Gaspery arrive?
2. What objections to forest sounds does Gaspery note?
3. What is the public reason Edwin spends much time walking after his military service?
4. What does Zoey note to Gaspery happened to her after his dismissal from the Time Institute?
5. For what reason does Zoey note that Gaspery is not simply lost in time after preserving Olive’s life?
6. How does Gaspery know he will encounter Vincent in New York City?
7. What reason is given for the exhaustion of meeting via hologram?
8. How does Olive gloss the flight from Earth to the moon?
9. For what reason does Gaspery note some regret at preserving Olive’s life?
10. For what reasons does Olive regret having abandoned her suitcase for her return trip to the moon?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
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?
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