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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 animals does the boy possess in order to pursue Joe and Nina?

2. What one thought does Joe cling to despite a promise to Barbara?

3. What other complication makes escape difficult for Nina and Joe?

4. What did Rachel ask Mercy to do?

5. Why does Rose's ex-husband Louis cry when he discovers she has passed on, although he knows that there is an after life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What facts does Joe share with Barbara about the flight that he has so far withheld from her?

2. In what five ways is SSW-89-58 rewarded for good behavior?

3. What bombshell does Rose drop on Joe in the basement of Santa-Fe-by-the-Sea?

4. How does Joe warn Barbara and keep her safe at the same time?

5. Why does Joe decide Barbara shouldn't tell him anymore, and why does she insist?

6. Who is Project 99's only success according to Rose?

7. What actually caused the crash and why is it so unusual?

8. What does Rose tell the Infiniface group?

9. Why does Joe believe that in the year that has passed, Rose has never tried to return Nina to him if she really had his daughter?

10. What happens as Joe arrives in Los Angeles again that changes his elation back to fear again?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What similarities are there between CCY-21-21 and SSW-89-58? How are their beginnings related? Why are they valued differently by their handlers? While both are feared to some degree, why is only one is kept in a strictly controlled and isolated environment? What would the outcome of freedom for this subject be? How do the handlers ensure cooperation?

Essay Topic 2

How are rage and grief linked? What associates these two emotions and why? Joe is barely in control of himself. How does this manifest itself? What indicators are there that point to a secondary causative as opposed to a simple response to the stimuli at hand? What steps does Joe take to attempt to bring this under control? Are these steps effective? Why or why not? Explain what Joe could be doing to help him through this time more effectively.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Joe have difficulty when he tries to withdraw more than usual from his own bank account? What kind of reception does he get from both the teller and the branch manager, despite the fact that they both know him by sight? How is that in direct contradiction from the behavior of any savings institution when money is being deposited? Why is there this kind of altered attitude?

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