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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. Where does the King of Lake Maxinkuckee live?

2. Following their orgy, what keeps Wilbur and Eliza apart?

3. When Wilbur and Eliza reunite, how long does their reunion last?

4. What is the universal middle name for slaves?

5. What does Vera give Wilbur for his 100th birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the King of Lake Maxinkuckee want Wilbur to sign?

2. How are those with the same noun in their middle name related?

3. After gravity shifts for the first time, everyone is crying for help. What does Wilbur do?

4. When Wilbur lights all of the candles Vera gives him for his birthday, he says he feels like what?

5. When Melody plucks a chicken for a rooftop picnic, what happens to the feathers and why?

6. Why does Sophie object to her new middle name?

7. After Eliza is released from the mental institution, how does she express her anger to her brother?

8. When Wilbur attends a Daffodil meeting, what surprises him?

9. During their reunion, Wilbur and Eliza do what to their mother, the servants, and Mushari?

10. What does the new religious cult believe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the novel, the Chinese create inventions that could help Wilbur and Eliza resolve many of their physical and personal issues. These inventions are mentioned in passing. Select a moment in the text where one of these inventions are mentioned and analyze what this invention could resolve for Wilbur or Eliza.

Essay Topic 2

When Wilbur and Eliza's parents visit them for their 15th birthday, the visit does not go as planned. Write an essay examining why this visit forced the circumstances of the children to change.

1) How does a typical birthday celebration play out for Wilbur and Eliza?

2) Why was this birthday different?

3) Why are the characters prompted to change.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the relationship between Wilbur and Eliza throughout the novel.

1) What were they like as children?

2) What is their relationship when they are separated?

3) What is their relationship when they are reunited?

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