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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. Adhesion: Who made humans in this story?

2. Scales: What are humans in this afterlife?

3. Sum: In this afterlife:

4. The Cast: What do some actors do to escape the dream?

5. Reins: Why did the angels sew discord against God?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. Giantess: Why does the princely looking man in this afterlife study humans?

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

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

6. Giantess: What happened as a result of the princely man's attempt to communicate with the Giantess?

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

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

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

10. Mirrors: In this story death is a two part process. The first death comes when a person takes their final breath, but the second part does not come until later. What kills the person the second time?

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

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?

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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