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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. Who does Dr. Mott quote on Wilbur's graduation card?

2. What is Vera's general advice about marriage?

3. Where does Eliza buy a condo?

4. Who rules Michigan?

5. Who is the most famous Peanut?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. On his way to speak with the dead, why does Wilbur stop by Indianapolis?

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

5. When Wilbur finishes speaking with Eliza in the afterlife, what does he plan to do and why?

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

7. Once Wilbur implements the middle name system, how does the Daffodil Club change?

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

9. Following the reunion orgy and separation from Wilbur, in what fashion does Eliza live her life?

10. Walter finds it disturbing to be around the religious members of the kidnapped Jesus cult for what reason?

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 gets old, Melody and Isadore are an important part of his life. After years of struggle with family, Wilbur's relationship with this new family seems loving and somewhat normal. Write an essay examining this relationship.

Essay Topic 3

When Wilbur is the President of the United States, he changes the system of names in order to bring people together. Analyze the purpose, process, and result of this attempt, citing examples from the text.

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