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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. In which city did the protagonist stop on her road-trip?

2. In what Kansas city is the protagonist asked if she is a sex worker?

3. Where did the protagonist and her brother visit Nina Rindt?

4. What is the name of the protagonist’s uncle?

5. How old does the protagonist report being when she realized other people genuinely forget things?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the interlocutor explain the proscription against potentially entangling items at Stella Maris?

2. What does the protagonist note is commonly the most interesting thing about philosophers?

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

4. Why does the protagonist indicate people prefer the idea of fate to the idea of chance?

5. Why does the protagonist distrust her doctoral advisor?

6. How does the protagonist respond to being asked if she is a sex worker?

7. What is the subject of the paper the protagonist sent Grothendieck in advance of arriving at IHES (136)?

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

9. What does the protagonist cite as her chief gripe with mental health professionals?

10. Why does the protagonist assert she would not have been a good counselor?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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