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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: What causes the final death in this afterlife?

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

3. Mary: When did God become disenchanted with man?

4. Spirals: What do the creatures ask each new arrival to the afterlife?

5. Scales: What are humans in this afterlife?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Scales:

In this afterlife the reader finds that man is just part of the biology of God. Humans are basically the cells that make up God's organs. As they destroy themselves and others, they also destroy God.

How does the story of God and Man in this afterlife mirror the real life relationship between Man and the earth? Present three or four ways in which the earth (God) is being destroyed by Man's actions. Do you think the earth would be as wonderful as it is now if Man was not a part of it? Why or why not?

Do you agree with God's conclusion in this story: Everything creates itself upon the backs of smaller entities which will ultimately destroy the original entity.

Essay Topic 2

Ineffable:

Everything in this story goes to an afterlife when it dies. That includes people, furniture and court sessions. Even our cells go to their own afterlife when we die.

How do you think this is possible? Does this mean that everything has a soul? An energy? A life on earth? Why do you think the way you do?

Essay Topic 3

Great Expectations:

Man has come up with a way to create his own afterlife. People in this story design the afterlife of their dreams and eagerly anticipate the moment when they can spend eternity in their ideal Heaven. However, after death they find out that this isn't true; their great expectations are not met.

1) How does God feel about man's disappointment?

2) What does God think has caused this?

3) How has man's blind faith in an afterlife ruined his experience once he arrives in the afterlife?

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