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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 the family call Charlene Kline?

2. What is Miles's reaction to seeing Sasha's art from the air?

3. Who is Miles's cousin he goes to stay with in Part I?

4. What is the name of Miranda's book?

5. Who is M dating?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bix Bouton go to a session with professors and students in disguise?

2. How does Miranda Kline form her famous hypotheses and algorithms?

3. What is the crisis at Harvest that shocks everyone?

4. What episode from his youth hanuts Bix Bouton?

5. What breaks Lincoln's heart in Part II?

6. How does Lincoln's sister Alison help him?

7. What topic is Alfred Hollander obsessed with?

8. What is bothering Bix Bouton in Part I?

9. What happens when Alfred tracks Jack Stevens down and visits him?

10. What is Lana's and Melora's relationship with their father like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Egan's telling, how does technology both improve and negatively complicate our lives? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What is Bix's original vision for the promise of the internet, and how has that played out by the time the reader meets him early in the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Melora suggest that Lana and Miranda have chosen to be "eluders," and how does she ultimately feel about the total loss of her sister and mother? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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