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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. What was the name of the protagonist’s older brother?
2. How many fire extinguishers is Los Alamos reported to have?
3. Whom does the protagonist ask if patients will surprise?
4. What case number is assigned to the protagonist?
5. What group did Grothendieck lead?
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. Why does the interlocutor remark that it is an oddity to claim Oppenheimer was stupid?
4. How does the protagonist note arriving at the Kid’s height?
5. How does the protagonist argue that the Stanford-Binet test is racist?
6. What is implied to have occasioned the interlocutor’s divorce?
7. Why was the protagonist’s father away from home when she was born?
8. What reason is given for Grothendieck leaving the IHES?
9. What, per the novel, is Gabelsberger?
10. What purpose for entertainment does the interlocutor posit?
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
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 3
Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.
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