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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 II end?

2. What name did the Kid believe Dirac had?

3. How old is the protagonist’s brother when their mother dies?

4. What label does the interlocutor apply to the figures in the protagonist’s hallucinations?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the interlocutor note patients surprise him?

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

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

4. How does the protagonist know that her fellow inpatients know she does not belong among them?

5. How does the protagonist explain Grothendieck’s activism?

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

7. What, per the novel, is Gabelsberger?

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

9. What is the two-slit experiment?

10. What work did the protagonist’s father do after the use of atomic weapons in World War II?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

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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