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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. Missing: What is God?
2. Mirrors: What causes the final death in this afterlife?
3. Metamorphosis: What do the people awaiting the Caller become?
4. Spirals: What is God like?
5. Mary: When did God become disenchanted with man?
Short Essay Questions
1. Adhesion: What is the adhesive (alluded to in the title) that holds humans together in this story?
2. 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?
3. Spirals: What do the creatures in this afterlife want from humans?
4. Angst: Why do the humans in this story dread returning to the afterlife?
5. Mary: Why does God love Mary Shelley?
6. The Unnatural: Why do people begin murdering others?
7. 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?
8. Missing: How does God being a married couple become a problem in this afterlife?
9. Oz: Who gets to see God in this story?
10. Egalitaire: How did the people who died feel about this afterlife?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Mirrors:
Man wakes up to confusion in this afterlife. They have died the first death and are now in Purgatory awaiting the second, and final, death. What causes the final death here? Why would this kill a person? What do you think happens after this death?
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