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

2. On which of the following is Olive a best-selling author?

3. What appears on Olive’s daughter’s pajamas?

4. With which of the following does Chapter 13 of "Anomaly" begin?

5. Which of the following does Mirella marry?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What objections to forest sounds does Gaspery note?

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

5. For what reason does Zoey note that Gaspery is not simply lost in time after preserving Olive’s life?

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

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

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

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

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

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

Sources attest to the presence of Sea of Tranquility on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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