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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 Foyle use to fire the combustion chamber of the jet?

2. What is the address of the Presteign clan headquarters?

3. What is a memo-bead?

4. What does Foyle look like when he looks at himself in the mirror in Chapter 2?

5. What sort of craft does Foyle use to leave the Sargasso Asteroid?

Short Essay Questions

1. What keeps Foyle from divulging information about the whereabouts of the Nomad when he is questioned at the Nightmare Theater?

2. What is the relationship between Presteign and Dagenham?

3. What relationship does Robin have with Foyle early on?

4. What is significant and dangerous about Dagenham, especially in regard to his proximity to other people?

5. What is the relationship between Jiz and Sam Quatt?

6. Describe the Gouffre Martel prison.

7. What is significant about Moira in Foyle's early days among the Scientific People, and what does she tell him are his responsibilities?

8. What motivates Foyle to save himself at the close of Chapter 1?

9. Why is Gully Foyle considered the stereotypical common man?

10. How did the Scientific People come to be?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fourmyle's Four Mile Circus is encamped in what is known as Old St. Pat's, what was once St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Discuss the irony of this group taking up residence in what was once a church, being mindful of what the Circus represents. Explain why the Circus is such an attraction to the people in the culture. Is it an escape? An ideal to be emulated? Evidence of the culture's depravity? Or something else entirely?

Essay Topic 2

In the last two chapters of the book, author Bester basically throws convention to the wind and attempts to describe what happens with Foyle in hyperbolic language and graphic representations of what is fundamentally indescribable. Discuss Bester's use of these tools, how effective you felt they were, and share an alternate way of communicating the same truths without using the same conventions Bester did.

Essay Topic 3

Foyle finds himself in Gouffre Martel prison. His presence there is an allegory for a descent into one's self. Describe how the conditions of the prison mirror Foyle's state. Discuss how Jisbella's contacting him, and their subsequent escape, parallel what is happening to him internally.

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