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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. At what school does Lord Finkle-McGraw arrange for Nell to study?
2. The adults conclude what, after watching the three girls play outside the manor of Elizabeth's grandfather?
3. Carl Hollywood meets with Lord Finkle-McGraw after joining which phyle?
4. After Hackworth awakens from his dreams and crawls through the tunnels, what does he find?
5. In the Primer, Nell encounters an army of mice who ride on what?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Miranda Receives an Unusual Ractive Message," what scheme does she enter into?
2. In "Carl Hollywood Takes the Oath," why is he allowed to join the elite Atlantis phyle and gain acceptance from Lord Finkle-McGraw?
3. In "Carl Hollywood's Hack," how do Carl Hollywood's activities in a teahouse begin to tie together the various main characters and plots in the novel?
4. In "The Hackworths Have a Family Reunion," at the end of the tense meeting between Hackworth and Gwendolyn, what important event occurs?
5. In "Carl Hollywood's Activities at the Parnasse," why is Miranda so interested in the technical aspects of the Primer's interactive features?
6. In "Hackworth Awakes from a Dream," after waking from his dream of multiple sexual encounters and traveling back through the underwater tunnels, what clues does Hackworth find to indicate the passage of time?
7. In "Peculiar Practices in the Woods," what does Hackworth explain to his daughter regarding the activities of CryptNet?
8. In "Orphans of the Han...," what does Judge Fang observe when he gives a young Han girl a copy of the Primer?
9. In "From the Primer, Princess Nell Crosses the Trail of the Enigmatic Mouse Army," when grown-up Nell visits her ailing brother, Harv, what message does he share with her?
10. In "Nell's Passage Through Pudong," when Nell seeks employment at the brothel of Madame Ping, what sort of service does she hope to perform?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the author's use of wordplay in "The Diamond Age" to further his points and entertain the reader. Examples to consider include: Hackworth, who hacks; phyle, a filing system for citizens; and the Flea Circus, for counterfeiting with mites.
Essay Topic 2
Track the gradually developing mother/daughter relationship between Miranda and Nell as it grows throughout the novel by way of the Primer, culminating in Nell's rescue of Miranda using skills she learned from the Primer.
Essay Topic 3
Describe principles of Confucian justice as exhibited by Judge Fang and Chang in the courtroom and in their interactions with citizens.
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