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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 Wilbur become obsessed with following his presidency?

2. What do most people give Vera as a gift?

3. What does the King of Lake Maxinkuckee want control of?

4. Who rules Michigan?

5. How does Wilbur cope with Eliza's death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. When Wilbur returns to his graduation party, people think that Eliza's voice had come from where?

7. What does the new religious cult believe?

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

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

10. What does Mashuri invent?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As Wilbur gets older, the country begins a slow return to basics. Characters begin riding horses, hunting, and returning to simple entertainment such as Backgammon.

1) What prompts this return to basics?

2) How is this different from how Wilbur was raised?

3) How does Wilbur respond in this new environment?

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

After the Green Death, the world changes drastically. Citing examples from the childhood of Wilbur and Eliza compared to Wilbur's life in the future, examine how the world has changed.

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