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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. Distance: Why does God keep his distance from man?
2. Mirrors: What causes the final death in this afterlife?
3. Spirals: What is God like?
4. Circle of Friends: Who will not be in this afterlife?
5. Great Expectations: People in this afterlife can?
Short Essay Questions
1. Spirals: Why do the creatures in this afterlife think humans are so intelligent?
2. Distance: Everyone in this afterlife is allowed to ask the Creator one question. One man asks why God keeps himself separate from man. What is God's answer?
3. Scales: What is so special about the relationship between God and humans in this afterlife?
4. Great Expectations: In this story the people who create and program afterlives are basically selling a false product, though not intentionally. How is it that people are mistaken in their understanding of the afterlife?
5. Descent of Species: What does the human-turned-horse realize right before he can no longer think?
6. Egalitaire: God created life to be good and bad, but then had a problem creating a way to judge people in the afterlife. Why is that?
7. Perpetuity: Why does God treat sinners so well in this afterlife?
8. Oz: Who gets to see God in this story?
9. The Unnatural: Why do people begin murdering others?
10. The Cast: As you live your life, all of the people in the background of your life are actors. They are those in the afterlife who must play "roles" in your life. However, not every actor is happy being a character in your life. Why are they so dissatisfied?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Descent of Species:
In this story your last coherent thought, before you become a horse, you realize that in another life you must have been an alien who wanted to be human.
1) Why do you (the main character) think this?
2) Do you (the reader) agree with the character's assumption? Why or why not?
3) Can you imagine a way that the horse (or bug or snake) could become human again? How would they do this?
Essay Topic 2
Quantum:
In this afterlife, everything exists in all possible states at the same time.
1) Why would the afterlife be set up this way?
2) Do you think the people in the afterlife are happy? Why or why not?
3) How would you fix this afterlife to make it more manageable?
4) This afterlife is based on the principles of Quantum physics. Therefore, it really could be possible for all things to be happening at one time. What do you think about this idea?
Essay Topic 3
The Unnatural:
The Unnatural part of this story is the absence of death. The reader is shown a world in which death is not a fear and where people will go to great lengths to reinsert death into life. Can you imagine a world in which there is no death? What would that world be like? Do you think people would wish to commit suicide and kill others? Why or why not? What do you think gives life meaning? Does death give meaning to life? Why or why not?
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