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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. With which of the following does III begin?

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

3. With which of the following did the protagonist’s father work?

4. In what state is Stella Maris?

5. What epistemological position does the protagonist claim?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What, per the novel, is Gabelsberger?

4. What is the two-slit experiment?

5. What purpose for entertainment does the interlocutor posit?

6. Why does the protagonist consider music an exception to the rules governing other things?

7. Why does the protagonist report not investing her inheritance?

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

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

10. Why did the protagonist’s father hide his first marriage?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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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