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

2. How long is Wilbur tied to Wilma's bed?

3. Wilbur is happy that Sophie never read what?

4. When confronting Wilbur about her inheritance, Eliza claims that who has become her real family?

5. When Wilbur visits the King of Lake Maxinkuckee, his visit is documented by what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mashuri invent?

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

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

4. What happens to Wilbur the first time that gravity shifts?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As the children become adults, they are no longer the same. Wilbur finds a way to channel his disfigurements into a productive lifestyle whereas Eliza struggles with this. Write an essay examining the struggle the children experience as they become adults.

1) How are the Wilbur and Eliza physically and mentally different from others?

2) Wilbur uses his defects to create strengths. Why is Eliza unable to do this?

3) How do the children change as adults?

Essay Topic 2

Once the Green Death has hit Manhattan, the bar for knowledge drops substantially. Examine the lack of traditional intelligence in the futuristic United States, citing examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Dr. Mott affects Wilbur's life in several different ways. Write an essay examining the impact Dr. Mott made on Wilbur's life.

1) What was Dr. Mott's role in Wilbur's life?

2) Why did Dr. Mott leave such a strong impression on Wilbur?

3) How does Dr. Mott shape Wilbur's future?

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