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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 6 of "Anomaly" begin?

2. What are the last words Ephrem says to Gaspery?

3. What is the name of Gaspery’s cellmate?

4. With which of the following does Chapter 1 of "Anomaly" begin?

5. To which of the following years does Zoey take Gaspery from prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reasons does Olive regret having abandoned her suitcase for her return trip to the moon?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What objections to forest sounds does Gaspery note?

9. What favor does Gaspery ask of Ephrem when the Time Institute acts against him?

10. What reason is given for the exhaustion of meeting via hologram?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A character in the novel remarks that “We knew it was coming” is often true (91). Does the novel substantiate the remark? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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