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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. Impulse: What is the afterlife like for humans?
2. Conservation: What state does the afterlife drift into?
3. Quantum: What type of scenario causes mixed signals for people?
4. Graveyard of the Gods: How do the gods feel about this afterlife?
5. Incentive: What are the people called who are unaware that death does not exist?
Short Essay Questions
1. Apostasy: In this afterlife God is anxious to reveal the Book of Truth to everyone who enters. She has always feared that some people would figure out the answers to life before she could tell them. Why does she banish apostates from her Heaven?
2. Reversal: What is the difference between your remembered life and your second life that causes grief for many when they live the second time?
3. Prism: What was God's biggest problem when he created this afterlife?
4. Incentive: Why do the actors in this afterlife wish to be Beneficiaries?
5. 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?
6. Seed: Why does God feel like an amateur magician?
7. Impulse: In this afterlife people are the same as computer chips. What happened to people that was not anticipated by the Programmers who created them?
8. Subjunctive: How is a person judged in this afterlife?
9. Absence: How does the absence of God contribute to the wars that break out in the afterlife?
10. Quantum: What scenario do people find the most familiar in this afterlife?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Oz:
At the end of this story the man behind the curtain tells the brave man that true bravery is measured by whether a person can face the absence of the Creator. How do you feel about this? How would you feel if you believed all your life there was a Creator and suddenly found out there wasn't? Would you be scared? Happy? Nervous? Why would you feel the way you do? How does facing this reality show that someone is brave?
Essay Topic 3
Apostasy:
In this story God is a woman who wishes to provide those entering the afterlife with the Book of Truth, a book that reveals all the answers they have been looking for. She forces any apostates to leave Heaven out of fear that they will impart people with this knowledge before she can. This God seems fairly vain and self-serving. Why do you think that is? Do you think it is significant that the author made this god a woman? Why or why not?
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