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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 do the Pidgin speaking people call the strangers?

2. What language do the people of this island speak?

3. What did Sarah notice about Evans?

4. Why did Kenner want to save the guy he assumed was a part of ELF?

5. Which state was most eco-conscious?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the studies on scientific bias find?

2. What happened in the fall of 1989?

3. Why was Ted Bradley going with Evans to identify Morton instead of Sarah?

4. How are present day scientists like Renaissance painters?

5. What was said by the Russian-accented fellow that caught Sarah's attention?

6. How did Morton fake his own death?

7. Why does Kenner believe that there must be a way out?

8. What is the purpose of Hoffman's research?

9. Why does Drake hate the cause he fights for?

10. Why was the frustration Drake evinced perfectly understandable?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the studies of scientific bias. If we take this information as accurate, what does it mean for a vast percentage of the information we have been given already? What about our history books? Why don't you think, in light of this information, that more things are retested to eliminate the bias?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Evans and Drake. What kind of characters are they? What kind of people would they be if they existed in real life? How do their personalities contrast each other? How could they compliment each other?

Essay Topic 3

How did you, as the reader, feel about this book? Which character did you identify most with? Why? Which character did you like the most/least? Why? Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

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