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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 reason does Jared tell Sebastian that he will likely be released from the hospital soon?

2. After his ejection from Harvard, Buckminster Fuller's parents had sent him to be an apprentice in a textiles factory in what Canadian province?

3. When Jared comes home from the hospital, what does he need help doing when he first walks in the door?

4. Jared tells Sebastian that it does not matter what they look like because "people just want your booty if you're a" (144) what?

5. About what location does Nana ask Sebastian out of the blue whether he has ever visited, causing him to think she really is clairvoyant?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sebastian learn as a result of having to hide beneath Meredith's bed during her conversation with Janice?

2. For what task does Sebastian tell Meredith that he requires her help?

3. What does Janice reveal to Sebastian as the real reason for her role as a youth group leader at Immanuel Methodist Church?

4. What is Sebastian's reaction to the realization that Nana has moved on with completing the geoscope project in his absence?

5. What is Jared's reaction to Sebastian catching Meredith when Sebastian catches her after her fall from the balance beam and why?

6. What does Jared reveal to Sebastian during the second youth group meeting as the real reason he has been struck ill?

7. What clues does the author provide during the photographer's visit to the dome that suggest the outcome will not be a positive one when the article comes out?

8. What does Sebastian realize about Buckminster Fuller's philosophy after he has his first sexual experience by touching Meredith's breast?

9. What are the qualities that Sebastian tells Meredith he likes about her when he calls her up the second time and does not know that it is him?

10. What is the process of sorting according to Buckminster Fuller's philosophy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of the novel's inclusion of the record store as a brief, yet meaningful and symbolic setting.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the carnivalesque nature of the novel's climax and explain how its qualities of the carnivalesque mesh with the novel's inherent themes.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the character of Jared within the novel. Discuss the methods used by the author in order to make Jared come alive for the reader and include in your discussion determinations about his character's status as either static or dynamic and either round or flat.

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