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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. Mirrors: Where is a person when he/she wakes up in death for the first time?

2. Great Expectations: What really happens to people when they die?

3. Metamorphosis: What do the people awaiting the Caller become?

4. Spirals: Why did the creatures create humans?

5. The Unnatural: What did you try to do before in this afterlife?

Short Essay Questions

1. Missing: Why is the dispute over God's gender irrelevant in this story?

2. Missing: How does God being a married couple become a problem in this afterlife?

3. Egalitaire: How did the people who died feel about this afterlife?

4. Mary: Why does God love Mary Shelley?

5. Angst: Why do the humans in this story dread returning to the afterlife?

6. Spirals: What do the creatures in this afterlife want from humans?

7. 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?

8. The Unnatural: What do you choose in this afterlife that you believe will help the world?

9. Spirals: Why do the creatures in this afterlife think humans are so intelligent?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Egalitaire:

The god in this story finds herself torn about how to judge people. She realizes that no one is all good or all bad; as a result Heaven is filled with people who feel that they are each in their own kind of hell. Why are the people in Heaven unhappy? What is it about their personalities and their earthly lives that makes them unable to get along with each other? What would you have done if you were this god?

Essay Topic 3

Seed:

God has slipped into seclusion because he is afraid that he will disappoint man. You see, he created man by complete accident. As man becomes smarter it is harder for God to impress him.

What do you think about this? Do you think science has made it harder for people to be impressed by God? Why or why not? Should God feel like an amateur magician because his creation of man was a mistake? Should he feel good because man is a great creation? Why do you feel the way you do?

Please keep your answers within the context of the story.

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