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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 is analogue?

2. What interrupts the assault by the Tong on Foyle on the Spanish Stairs?

3. Who is Ben Forrest?

4. Where does the Government House ball at the opening of Chapter 9 take place?

5. What does Y'ang-Yeovil identify Robin as when she visits him in Central Intelligence headquarters?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Robin and Foyle do after their appearance at a Shanghai party to further Foyle's quest?

2. What truth does Sheffield reveal to Foyle at the Four Mile Circus?

3. What does Robin offer Foyle after the New Year's Eve bombardment, and what is his response?

4. Describe, in a couple of sentences, the nature of the first Solar War as explained in Chapter 8.

5. What is Y'ang-Yeovil's role on the Spanish Steps?

6. What is Foyle's relationship with Steve Forrest, and where does Foyle find Forrest?

7. What proposition does Foyle make Robin after her suicide attempt, and what is her response?

8. What is the nature of the discussion in the Star Chamber in Chapter 14?

9. What does Olivia Presteign tell her father about Foyle that stuns him?

10. Describe members of the Skoptsy Colony.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

After Foyle and Jiz escape Gouffre Martel, they find themselves in the presence of Harley Baker and his Freak Factory. Discuss how Foyle is dealing with his lack of control, Jisbella's attempt to teach him some control, the significance of the removal of his tattoos, why it is significant that he undergoes the tattoo removal without anesthesia initially, and how the removal of those external markings amplify the need for Foyle to deal with his internal markings as well. Also note how the tattoos reappear when he is angry, passionate, or otherwise emotional, and how that betrays his internal state externally.

Essay Topic 3

Robin Wednesbury and Presteign are both key characters in the novel. Both of them will play key roles in Foyle's life. Symbolically, they represent two ends of the spectrum showing how external characters can display the internal characteristics of Foyle. Discuss how Robin and Presteign show the duality of the forces at work in and around Foyle. Point out how their nature and temperament contrast each other. Also discuss how Foyle's fate is somehow bound up in these two characters.

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