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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. Which of the following medications does the interlocutor note the protagonist had taken?

2. To which of the following does the protagonist compare the Manhattan Project?

3. How long do the protagonist and interlocutor have together after the break in II?

4. What procedure does the protagonist note had been performed on Rosemary Kennedy?

5. What is the name of Grothendieck’s father?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the protagonist argue that the Stanford-Binet test is racist?

2. What, per the novel, is Gabelsberger?

3. What opinion of Oppenheimer does the protagonist ascribe to her father?

4. What purpose for entertainment does the interlocutor posit?

5. How does the protagonist purpose to protect the violin she buys?

6. How does the protagonist explain the decision to commit herself, rather than to be committed?

7. Why does the interlocutor remark that it is an oddity to claim Oppenheimer was stupid?

8. Why was the protagonist’s father away from home when she was born?

9. What attitude does the protagonist report her father had toward the use of atomic weapons in World War II?

10. What is implied to have occasioned the interlocutor’s divorce?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Stella Maris? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that Stella Maris should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

To what genre other than psychological fiction might Stella Maris be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

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