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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 did the woman with the shaved head do on the raft?

2. What has the Snow Crash done to Da5id?

3. Who's body does Squeaky show to Hiro?

4. What is the name of the virtual world that Hiro works in after losing his pizza delivery job?

5. What is the Snow Crash?

Short Essay Questions

1. What things are revealed in Chapter 20 to make Raven a more formidable adversary than previously realized?

2. What is the Metaverse and how is it viewed by those who spend the most amount of time there?

3. What is atypical of what appears to be a typical drug deal?

4. What did Enki do to humanities words?

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

6. In Chapter 39, what do we learn about Raven and the Orthos?

7. Why might a big wig like Uncle Enzo want to meet Y.T. Kourier, and how does he go about arranging such a meeting?

8. What is revealed in Y.T.'s relationship to her mom?

9. A foreboding character is introduced in Chapter 15. Who is he and what is foreshadowed in this chapter?

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

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

Faith and religion are intertwined with technology throughout this novel. Write an essay that explains how and why they are so closely related, and how that compares to our life in the real world.

Essay Topic 3

Describe Mr. Stephenson's writing style. Name two other authors that write in a similar style. Why is it similar? How is it different?

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