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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 Calvin buy at the store where he meets Deb in the Lower East Side in Chapter 1?
2. What season and episode of Shooting Stars appears at the end of Chapter 12?
3. What did Leon have a budding career in before he was forced to relocate for his mother's job?
4. When did NASA pick its first astronauts for the Orpheus mission, according to Cal in Chapter 2?
5. What is Donna Szleifer's position at NASA?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the theme of selfishness play out through the character of Cal's father?
2. How is the Tucker home described?
3. Why does Cal feel his family is inadequate as a NASA family?
4. What is Cal's social media outlet, and what is his standing in the beginning of the novel?
5. Why would Cal's career ambitions be threatened if his father were accepted at NASA?
6. How is the show Shooting Stars presented in the novel? What purpose do these excerpts serve?
7. How does Cal describe his family life early in the novel?
8. Why is Cal at a community garden in Chapter 8?
9. What item of clothing does Cal restrain from wearing in Texas on most occasions? Why?
10. Where do Cal and Leon kiss for the first time? What happens after they kiss?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze and discuss the narrative style in The Gravity of Us. From what perspective is the story related? In what tense is it related? Why are these choices important?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss three examples of foreshadowing in the novel. What event is foreshadowed? How does the author indicate this event? Does the author make use of red herrings in the narrative? How do these examples serve the text?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and discuss the plot structure of The Gravity of Us. What is the inciting action of the plot? Where does the climax occur? What information is revealed in the falling action and denouement of the narrative?
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