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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 city do Marygay and Mandella decide to visit first?

2. Who does Mandella think is going to cause problems?

3. What kind of cycle has Kynock recently witnessed on earth?

4. Which movement does Kynock mention in this chapter?

5. Who stays and dies in the underground base?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does it seem that there are only two battles in the book?

2. How are the cooks making the alcohol?

3. What was the Pacifist Movement?

4. How do the Taurans try and defeat the humans when their darts don't work?

5. What is the happy pill?

6. What problems do Mandella and Moore identify when they explore the ship?

7. How has Mandella's mother's life changed since he last saw her?

8. How does the battle end in Chapter 7, Part 3?

9. How does Graubard die?

10. Why can Mandella's company be called test tube babies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine Earth from Haldeman's idea that everyone is cloned and has a collective conscience.

1) How would such an environment affect people's relationships?

2) How would it benefit the government?

3) Who do you think the government would choose to clone and why?

Essay Topic 2

Examine homosexuality in the novel. Is it a feasible idea that the majority of the population could become homosexual? What would have to change on today's Earth for that to happen?

Essay Topic 3

Choose a scene from the novel and critically analyze it in terms of the following:

1) Character development

2) Plot development.

3) Its significance to the book overall.

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