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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 days after Gaspery’s final visit to him does Edwin die?

2. In what year does Mirella travel to Dubai?

3. Whom of the following interviews Olive?

4. In which country does Edwin fight?

5. For how many deaths is Gaspery framed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Talia not remain with Zoey?

3. What examples of waking up in a new world does Olive rehearse as she returns to the moon from Earth?

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

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

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

7. What prompts Gaspery to undergo facial reconstruction?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of Sea of Tranquility? What in the text indicates as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What attitude towards predetermination does the novel present? What in the text indicates as much, and how does it do so?

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