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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. What does Rufus notice is hovering around in the background at the end of the trigger warning video?

2. What does Laks use to repair the flying chariot drone?

3. How is Laks receiving mission instructions once he gets to his ultimate destination?

4. What technology makes it possible for Rufus to be out in the hot sun?

5. Who are the two other falconers that join Rufus in the chapter titled Eight Months Later?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Saskia go to Vadan?

2. Who takes military control of Papua and why?

3. According to Pippa and Rufus why would India choose Laks to go on a mission to Flying S?

4. According to Pippa and Rufus what is performative war?

5. How does India shut down all the electronics at Flying S? How is this part of the performative war?

6. What is the first deepfake video involving Saskia about?

7. What is the second deepfake video involving Saskia about?

8. 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?

9. Why are the white people at the T.R. Mick's gas station afraid of Laks?

10. In the chapter titled "Rijsttafel," what is Willem trying to tell T.R.?

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

What do you think the author is saying about social media? What does it say that the world is consumed by a social media frenzy around people fighting each other at the Line of Actual Control; that people in Las Vegas are placing bets on the outcomes of fights between Indian and Chinese people?

Essay Topic 3

The "Greens" are often mentioned throughout the book as a political and philosophical party. What do the Greens believe is the right way to solve climate change? Are they for or against geoengineering? Why or why not?

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