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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 color does the protagonist suggest she wear to discuss dreams?
2. In what situation does the protagonist note having been in restraints?
3. With which of the following does VI begin?
4. To which of the following does the protagonist compare herself?
5. Which of the following does the protagonist note meeting at IHES?
Short Essay Questions
1. Per the novel, what is a prestige?
2. What hope in solving topological problems does the protagonist note?
3. What does the protagonist note is commonly the most interesting thing about philosophers?
4. What purpose does the protagonist posit for her dominant hallucination from early in her experience with it?
5. What “old saw in racing” does the protagonist report (165-66)?
6. How does the protagonist explain her father’s recourse to alternative medicines?
7. Why does the protagonist indicate people prefer the idea of fate to the idea of chance?
8. For what reason does the novel note the protagonist had previously been placed on suicide watch?
9. What does the interlocutor posit should be the defining image of the age in which he lives?
10. What value does the protagonist note accrues in not writing down ideas?
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
To what other writer’s work in your experience does McCarthy’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?
Essay Topic 3
The novel motions towards an idea of what it means to be great. What is that idea? What in the text indicates as much? How does the text indicate as much?
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