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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. Perpetuity: Where do sinners wake up in this afterlife?

2. Missing: What was created while the God couple was at war?

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

4. The Unnatural: What can a person change in this afterlife?

5. Distance: What is the afterlife like in this story?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Scales: What is so special about the relationship between God and humans in this afterlife?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. The Unnatural: Why do people begin to think that death refers to the death of motivation?

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

10. Metamorphosis: In this story, people die three deaths. The last death occurs when their name is said for the last time on earth. Why will some people be stuck waiting forever for their name to be called for the final time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Absence:

God is missing and no one knows where he is. To make matters worse, God has been gone for so long some in Heaven are beginning to believe he never existed to begin with. As a result wars break out that mirror the religious wars on earth. Why does this happen? What are the people in Heaven fighting over? What do the people on earth fight over? Do you think it is important for those of Heaven and earth to have a God? Why or why not?

Please base your answers on the context of the story, not on your personal religious beliefs.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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