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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. Borlú also offers to get whom out of the city?

2. What does Borlú find inside the library book?

3. According to Rodriguez, Geary had made contact with what?

4. At the end of the novel, what new name is Borlú known by?

5. What had happened to Bowden a few weeks before Geary's murder?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are dissensi?

2. What information does Rodriguez give Borlú regarding Geary?

3. What accident interrupts Borlú and Ashil? What is the effect of this accident?

4. What crime has Borlú committed? How did he commit this act?

5. What video footage is Borlú shown?

6. How did Borlú and Dhatt plan to get Rodriguez out of Ul Qoma?

7. What does Borlú learn while inside David Bowden's apartment?

8. What does Rodriguez believe about Orciny?

9. Who is Yallya? What part does she play in the investigation?

10. What information does Borlú learn from Buidze?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the characters of Corwi, Dhatt, and Ashil. What does his interactions with each tell us about Borlú?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the author’s choice to tell this story by using a first-person point of view. How does viewing the story through the first-person viewpoint of Borlú affect the story? How would the book be different if the story was told through third-person narration?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring how Borlú changes over the course of the novel.

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