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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 does Brutha respond when he is asked to describe the anteroom?

2. How does the tortoise speak to Brutha?

3. What does Om ask the ocean goddess to do?

4. What is emblazoned on the letter Sergeant Simony opens?

5. What appears on the horizon on the fourth day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Brutha hears Om's cries for help?

2. What is the relationship between eagles and tortoises, according to the author?

3. What is happening to the drunk Fri'it?

4. Who is Om?

5. Why is torture acceptable according to Brutha?

6. How does Brutha feel about traveling by boat?

7. What does Om realize as he is crawling his way up the stairs?

8. How are the Omnians treated in Ephebe?

9. Describe what the philosophers are like.

10. What does Burtha doubt, and how does Om prove it to him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As Om spends time among mortals, he begins to think, for the first time ever, of the concepts of fairness and justice. What makes him think of these, and what are his thoughts? Why did he never think of these in his powerful god state?

Essay Topic 2

What action does the Turtle Society take against Vorbis? What weaponry do they develop and what strategies do they have planned to overcome Vorbis' evil?

Essay Topic 3

Describe in great detail the relationship between Om and Brutha. Why can Brutha hear him when others can't? How does he treat Om?

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