View a FREE sample

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. Why did the trooper wait, regardless of the imminent danger?

3. What fear took the place of the fear of the Cold War?

4. What are ideas?

5. Which guy does Evans find?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of confused feelings was Sarah stuck with?

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

3. What does George want to do with Sarah and Evans?

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

5. What is so miraculous about Aspirin?

6. Why would the military fund weather research?

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

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

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

10. In what ways did people regulate the so called "untouched wilderness" that Columbus had seen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which do you think is more important--fighting global warming or pollution. Why? What is it that one person can do for either? Do you support either cause? How or why not? What about your family?

Essay Topic 2

How is the allusion to George Orwell made by Professor Hoffman incredibly accurate? How has our society shifted into one that greatly resembles George Orwell's 1984? In what ways has this kind of monitoring already taken place? How are we affected by such a social eye?

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 940 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample