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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. Giantess: Why did the man's people want to communicate with the Giantess?

2. Scales: What happens to God if man dies?

3. Descent of Species: What are you able to choose in this afterlife?

4. Mirrors: How many stages does death have in this afterlife?

5. Oz: What does the Creator look like at first?

Short Essay Questions

1. Oz: Who gets to see God in this story?

2. Mary: What disappoints God the most about his relationship with humans?

3. Descent of Species: What does the human-turned-horse realize right before he can no longer think?

4. The Unnatural: Why do people begin murdering others?

5. Reins: What does God have in common with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi?

6. Mary: Why does God love Mary Shelley?

7. Adhesion: What is the adhesive (alluded to in the title) that holds humans together in this story?

8. Perpetuity: Why does God treat sinners so well in this afterlife?

9. Sum: In this afterlife all of your life experiences are grouped together. You can't experience something different until you have run through all of the experience in one chain. For example, you can't take a shower until you are in the shower experience period of the afterlife. Why would this make you long for your life on earth?

10. Great Expectations: What doe people expect in this afterlife?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Metamorphosis:

This is the story of those who await their third and final death. A death that happens when their name is said for the last time on Earth. However, some people find that they are stuck in the waiting room for eternity because their names are in books and will never be said for the last time.

1) What people do you imagine are in the waiting room forever? Can you name a few?

2) Of the people you named, how might they undergo a metamorphosis in the waiting room?

3) How might they change while in the waiting room as a result of glorification or misunderstanding of their earthly character and/or actions?

Give 3 people as examples.

Essay Topic 2

Adhesion:

The Collectors have created human beings in an effort to understand why some things stick together. They study man to discover why some human relationships work while others fail. So far their experiment has been both costly and time consuming as they still are baffled by human relationships.

1) List the reasons in the story that people stay together in relationships.

2) List the reasons in the story that people break off relationships.

Pretend you are the Collector who must come to a final conclusion about human adhesion once and for all. What do you conclude is the reason man forms lasting relationships? Why do they form impermanent ones? Explain your answer using evidence the Collectors have in the story.

Essay Topic 3

Oz:

At the end of this story the man behind the curtain tells the brave man that true bravery is measured by whether a person can face the absence of the Creator. How do you feel about this? How would you feel if you believed all your life there was a Creator and suddenly found out there wasn't? Would you be scared? Happy? Nervous? Why would you feel the way you do? How does facing this reality show that someone is brave?

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