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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 happens to Bernard as a toddler?

2. In Chapter Forty-Six, who does Leigh-Cheri refuse to see?

3. What example does Bernard give about myth?

4. What does Bernard do when Leigh-Cheri insults him?

5. In the second "Interlude", what does the writer do to the typewriter he is using to write this novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Leigh-Cheri begin to do while she is in her self-imposed solitary confinement?

2. What is Leigh-Cheri's shocking find when she goes to the pyramid?

3. What condition is there to the marriage of Leigh-Cheri to A'ben Fizel?

4. What does Leigh-Cheri do on her birthday?

5. How do the authorities finally find Bernard to arrest him?

6. What does Bernard think has happened to Leigh-Cheri after he awakens following the blast that set them free?

7. What kind of ending did this novel have?

8. How did Gulietta become queen of the Furstenberg-Barcalonas' homeland?

9. What drastic measure does Leigh-Cheri do to show her support and love for Bernard while he is in prison?

10. Why does Leigh-Cheri visit the pyramid the night before her wedding to A'ben Fizel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are Right Wing and Left Wing government? How does Right Wing government pertain to the taking over of the Furstenberg-Barcalona's home country?

Essay Topic 2

Leigh-Cheri's bedtime story causes much ado when Bernard wants to know what happened to the golden ball. Is this a normal curiosity or a ploy used in the plot so that the writer can bring up the golden ball again later in the story? Where in the story is the golden ball misused as a metaphor for something else? Is the golden ball a metaphor or something in the story? If so, what?

Essay Topic 3

Why did Bernard want to have his day in court? What was he hoping to prove?

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