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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. How tall is the Kid?

2. To which of the following does the novel compare Oppenheimer?

3. In what year was Stella Maris established?

4. With which of the following does III end?

5. With which of the following does I end?

Short Essay Questions

1. Per the novel, what is a calutron?

2. How does the protagonist note arriving at the Kid’s height?

3. What attitude toward war does the protagonist report?

4. Why does the protagonist report having little contact with her father’s family?

5. What vices does the protagonist deny having?

6. What purpose for entertainment does the interlocutor posit?

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

8. How does the protagonist explain her affinity for mental health inpatients?

9. What agreement is implied to exist between the protagonist and interlocutor as the main text of the novel begins?

10. What does the protagonist cite as the incident inciting her seeking admission at Stella Maris?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider adapting Stella Maris into another medium. What medium would be most appropriate for the novel’s adaptation? What in the novel and what qualities of the medium suggest that appropriateness? How do they do so?

Essay Topic 2

In discussing subatomic particles, the novel presents a seeming anachronism: the mention of the top quark (44). Why might the anachronism be present? What in the novel supports that reasoning, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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