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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. Circle of Friends: What do you begin to long for in this afterlife?

2. Egalitaire: This god is very unusual because he/she is:

3. Egalitaire: What do souls think about this afterlife?

4. Angst: What happens to humans after they die?

5. Angst: What do most in the afterlife choose to do on their vacation?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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

5. Mary: Why does God love Mary Shelley?

6. Circle of Friends: This afterlife is populated by people who you felt were important enough to remember from your life. You never meet a stranger and you have the chance to renew old bonds and friendships. However, people are not happy here. Why?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Incentive:

In this story there are two kinds of people Actors and Beneficiaries. Actors are dead people who populate the lives of Beneficiaries, their job is to help the Beneficiaries who are still living. The actors don't like their job, but do it in the hopes that they too can be Beneficiaries some day.

1) Why would someone want to be a Beneficiary?

2) Exactly how are they "benefiting" from the deceit of the actors?

3) Would you rather be an Actor or a Beneficiary? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Narcissus:

The Cartographers have created man to help them map the earth. Man is equipped with cameras with which to view the terrain and bring images back to the Cartographers in the afterlife. But man ends up disappointing their creators. How does man disappoint the Cartographers? Why is man more interested in other people than in the earth? If this were a real scenario, do you think it would really happen this way? Why or why not?

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