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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 VI end?

2. Which of the following does the protagonist note meeting at IHES?

3. What scholar of quantum mechanics does the protagonist note thinking about?

4. In which of the following does the protagonist’s father die?

5. Which of the following does the protagonist describe as a “southernism” (149)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the protagonist object to being put on antipsychotic medication?

2. How does the interlocutor describe his daughter?

3. What hope in solving topological problems does the protagonist note?

4. What reason does the protagonist give for not pursuing many romantic relationships?

5. Why, per the protagonist, do falling climbers feel peace?

6. For what reason does the novel note the protagonist had previously been placed on suicide watch?

7. Per the novel, what is a prestige?

8. How does the protagonist explain her father’s recourse to alternative medicines?

9. What purpose does the protagonist posit for her dominant hallucination from early in her experience with it?

10. Why does the protagonist distrust her doctoral advisor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the novel’s title.

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

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Stella Maris? By which groups? Why?

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