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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. Blueprints: What do the Punishers use the code for?

2. Prism: What was God worried about when this afterlife was created?

3. Impulse: What is the afterlife like for humans?

4. Search: How often do your atoms pull together again?

5. Narcisuss: Who created humans?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Blueprints: How can the numbers in this story be both a reward and a punishment?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Quantum: What scenario do people find the most familiar in this afterlife?

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

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

8. Microbe: Why doesn't God know that man exists in this afterlife?

9. Absence: How does the absence of God contribute to the wars that break out in the afterlife?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Quantum:

In this afterlife, everything exists in all possible states at the same time.

1) Why would the afterlife be set up this way?

2) Do you think the people in the afterlife are happy? Why or why not?

3) How would you fix this afterlife to make it more manageable?

4) This afterlife is based on the principles of Quantum physics. Therefore, it really could be possible for all things to be happening at one time. What do you think about this idea?

Essay Topic 2

Descent of Species:

In this story your last coherent thought, before you become a horse, you realize that in another life you must have been an alien who wanted to be human.

1) Why do you (the main character) think this?

2) Do you (the reader) agree with the character's assumption? Why or why not?

3) Can you imagine a way that the horse (or bug or snake) could become human again? How would they do this?

Essay Topic 3

Scales:

In this afterlife the reader finds that man is just part of the biology of God. Humans are basically the cells that make up God's organs. As they destroy themselves and others, they also destroy God.

How does the story of God and Man in this afterlife mirror the real life relationship between Man and the earth? Present three or four ways in which the earth (God) is being destroyed by Man's actions. Do you think the earth would be as wonderful as it is now if Man was not a part of it? Why or why not?

Do you agree with God's conclusion in this story: Everything creates itself upon the backs of smaller entities which will ultimately destroy the original entity.

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