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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. Why does Laks' flying chariot drone have to land well short of Laks' final mission point?
2. Who plans to go with T.R. but then decides to stay in Tuaba?
3. What is the source of the lights that Saskia sees heading for the bunkhouse before heading for safe cover?
4. Why does Laks say he is going on a secret mission?
5. What is Piet's preferred sport activity?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of a plane that can fly in the stratosphere and deliver sulfur exactly where the people who control the plane want it to go?
2. Why does Saskia go to Vadan?
3. Why does Rufus decide to defend Flying S and Pina2bo from whatever he guesses Laks is going to do to it?
4. In the chapter titled "Rijsttafel," what is Willem trying to tell T.R.?
5. On the way to dropping off Laks at the Columbia River, what is Uncle Dharmender trying to say to Laks?
6. Why is it important for India that Laks, a human, stop Pina2bo when it would be easier for a drone to do it?
7. What is significant about the conversation that T.R.'s security personnel have about Laks when they watch him on the security camera footage?
8. What does Fahd Bin Talal give to Saskia and why?
9. According to Pippa and Rufus why would India choose Laks to go on a mission to Flying S?
10. According to Pippa and Rufus what is performative war?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
China and its operative Bo play an essential role in the story. What role do they play? If you had to give a personalty and character trait to the China that is being portrayed in the book what would that personality and those character traits be?
Essay Topic 2
There are stories that are meant to entertain and stories that are meant to have a message or start a conversation. There are stories that do both. What kind of story is Termination Shock? What are the elements in this book that guide your judgment?
Essay Topic 3
When Willem is in the helicopter flying to the top of Sneeuwberg, what is the significance of Willem's thoughts about being outraged at seeing what the copper mine industry has done to the environment in Tuaba and these thoughts being immediately followed by the thoughts that every wind turbine feeding green energy into the Netherlands' grid is powered by copper that comes from the mine in Tuaba?
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