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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 are the cops trying to accuse Evans of?

2. What four languages did Sarah feel pretty confident about speaking?

3. What did the two use to dry off?

4. Who was the first one to find Peter?

5. How many rocket arrays were there?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Kenner ask Sarah to remove anything metal?

3. How are present day scientists like Renaissance painters?

4. In what ways was Peter trying to identify George Morton's body? Why couldn't he?

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

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

7. Why did Morton go to all this trouble to fake his own death?

8. Why wasn't Professor Hoffman welcome at the conference?

9. Why was Ted Bradley turned on by Jennifer Haynes?

10. Why did the investigators turn to computer simulations regarding the crash of Morton's car?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the fictional organization NERF to the real organization, ELF. How does the author spin the perspective of the reader from admiration of the cause and dedication of NERF to such a discontent radiation at the end of the novel? How is this change of view imperative to the progression of the story?

Essay Topic 2

What issues do you think are most pressing for the world to face today? Explain. What is the outcome if these issues aren't attended to? Are there any organizations dedicated to these causes at present? Who? Explain why you chose this particular cause.

Essay Topic 3

How has university, or the intellectual world, been changed by industry? In what ways are scientific findings no longer unbiased? How have the scientists themselves changed?

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