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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. In Chapter 1, what does Manny notice is wrong with the people on the street?

2. What is the Prologue speaker's first lesson?

3. At the ferry, the Woman in White Woman tells Aislyn about a sixth avatar that she refers to as what?

4. What does Manny use to defeat the Ick?

5. Where is Manny’s apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who arrives to save Manny and Bel in Inwood Hill Park, and how does she do it?

2. What can Manny tell about himself from looking in the Penn Station bathroom mirror?

3. What does Sao Paulo's attitude seem to be towards his job?

4. How does Manny treat the woman with the camera, once she is no longer the Woman in White, and what does it reveal about him?

5. What happens when Manny first encounters his roommate, Bel?

6. How does Manny manage to get to FDR Drive?

7. Describe the relationship between the narrator and Sao Paulo.

8. Though Aislyn thinks of her as a crazy person, why does she continue to stay with the Woman in White until she gets on the bus?

9. Who does the Woman in White confuse Bel for, and what do readers learn from her confusion?

10. What is Aislyn Houlihan doing at the Staten Island Ferry?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Four of the five avatars are female. Write an essay in which you examine what role gender plays in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

In what ways do the avatars work well together? In what ways do they struggle as a team?

Essay Topic 3

One of the main characters in the novel only really appears in the beginning and the end. Write an essay in which you describe how the Primary influences the decisions the other characters make even though he is not physically present.

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