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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. Death Watch: What happens when a computer has been idle for a number of days?

2. Pantheon: How do the gods feel about people?

3. Ineffable: What happens to a play or a conflict when it ends?

4. Encore: What has helped this afterlife flourish?

5. Graveyard of the Gods: How do the gods feel about this afterlife?

Short Essay Questions

1. Search: What happens to the atoms in your system when you die?

2. Incentive: Why do actors often resent their job?

3. Subjunctive: How is a person judged in this afterlife?

4. Prism: God decided to allow people to display different images of themselves in the afterlife. Much like light splitting through a prism. However, he soon discovered that this wouldn't work. Why not?

5. Pantheon: There are many gods in this afterlife. In fact, there is a god of just about everything you can think of. As a result, these gods do a lot of fighting with each other. Why is it that these gods can empathize with humans?

6. Subjunctive: What is the punishment a person faces in the afterlife if they are a failure during their living life?

7. Death Watch: Why would anyone feel the need to install a death switch on someone's computer?

8. Narcissus: The afterlife in this story takes place in the center of the earth. In the afterlife, the Cartographers download the images that people took while they were alive. However, the Cartographers are disappointed by the images the humans take. Why?

9. Absence: What has happened to the afterlife in this story?

10. Seed: Why does God feel like an amateur magician?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Giantess:

In this story God is so vast that the beings in her universe feel it is pointless to try and communicate with her. The being in the story states that the size difference between the Giantess and the beings trying to influence her was too large for them to really communicate. Do you think this is true? Is their size difference the reason the Giantess destroyed planets and elements when they sent her a message? What else may have made the Giantess behave in the way she did?

In other words, how might the princely-looking man be wrong in his interpretations of the Giantess's reaction?

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

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.

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