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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. Reversal: What are you confronted with in your second life?

2. Encore: How do the Creators try to create you in the afterlife?

3. Pantheon: Each God in this story rules over _________________.

4. Quantum: What are people in this afterlife able to enjoy?

5. Prism: What do people realize about their different ages while in this afterlife?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Quantum: What is so confusing about this afterlife?

3. Incentive: Why do the actors in this afterlife wish to be Beneficiaries?

4. Graveyard of the Gods: Why are the gods in this afterlife so miserable?

5. Seed: In this story man was created by accident. How did that happen?

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

7. Conservation: Eventually the quark must rest and recover the energy it needs to keep the universe going. What happens to the afterlife when the quark goes into the period of "incompleteness"?

8. Conservation: How was the universe created in this story?

9. Death Watch: How did the death switch become a problem for those who are alive?

10. Search: Once every millennium, all of your atoms come back together to create you again. This is a joyous occasion, but also a sad one. Why is it sad?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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