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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 months’ worth of pharmaceuticals does Olive order on her way home?
2. With which of the following does Chapter 4 of "Remittance / 1918, 1990, 2008" begin?
3. In which subbasement of the Time Institute is the travel room to which Gaspery returns?
4. In which country does Edwin fight?
5. In what year does Gaspery note he needs to play violin in an airship terminal?
Short Essay Questions
1. What examples of waking up in a new world does Olive rehearse as she returns to the moon from Earth?
2. To what does Gaspery liken having warned Olive of her coming death?
3. For what reason does Zoey note that Gaspery is not simply lost in time after preserving Olive’s life?
4. Why does Gaspery note that the people in New York City are comfortable touching each other when he encounters Vincent there?
5. For what reason does Gaspery note some regret at preserving Olive’s life?
6. How does Olive gloss the flight from Earth to the moon?
7. What favor does Gaspery ask of Ephrem when the Time Institute acts against him?
8. For what reasons does Olive regret having abandoned her suitcase for her return trip to the moon?
9. Ultimately, at what response to the simulation hypothesis does Gaspery arrive?
10. Why does Talia not remain with Zoey?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
St. John Mandel lists several authors whose materials she uses. Others are mentioned in the text. Not all of her literary influences are named, however. To what other writers is St. John Mandel indebted? For what? How does the text show as much?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Time-travel is a common concept in science fiction and related genres. Under what rules does the time travel in Sea of Tranquility appear to operate? What in the novel indicates those rules, and how does it do so?
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