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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. About what new gang does Y.T. hear?

2. Where does Jason work?

3. What is the En?

4. What is in the briefcase recovered from T-Bone's BMW?

5. What important job does Y.T. accomplish in time for the Mafia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Deliverator so disturbed by the idea that the pizza he delivers might be late?

2. More ethnic stereotyping is revealed in Chapter 40. How do people from the New South Africa franchise treat Hiro?

3. What are some possible reasons that Y.T. might feel uncomfortable around the people of Griffith Park and the Falabalas?

4. What did Enki do to humanities words?

5. Who is Da5id?

6. What are Metacops?

7. What does Chapter 37 reveal about the US Government?

8. In Chapter 38 we see what we would consider violations to our right to privacy. What does Y.T.'s mother put up with working for the Feds?

9. What is the Black Sun?

10. What is a Nam-Shub?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about the Raft gargoyles. What do you think would inspire someone without Juanita's motivations to mutilate themselves in such a fashion? If you think nothing could, speculate on how the multitudes of wireheads came to be.

Essay Topic 2

Despite Y.T.'s knowing who Raven is and what he is capable of, she finds herself extremely attracted to him. Suggest reasons why this may be the case. Put yourself in the place of either character. Do you think you would feel the same? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Define the literary device moral. Do you think there is a moral to this story? If so, what is it? If not, do you think you could create one? Explain why an author might choose to use a moral.

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