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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 Lila Mae do while she is hiding after escaping the Lift offices in Up: Part One?

2. What does Natchez have pictures of?

3. What does the evidence Lila Mae gathered point to in Up: Part One?

4. What do Lila Mae and Natchez spot Pompey carrying in Up: Part One?

5. What does Pompey reveal about this own past in Up: Part One?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lila Mae know that they will never figure out the Black Box design?

2. What does Lila Mae do before she leaves Coombs office in Up: Part Two?

3. What does Marie Claire give Lila Mae in Up: Part Two?

4. Who is Pompey?

5. What does Lila Mae do in the Lift offices?

6. What happens to Chancre at the Follies?

7. What had Arbo known all along?

8. What does Lila Mae realize about Chuck Gould in Up: Part One?

9. How does Lila Mae get into the Lift magazine offices?

10. Who had really sent out the pages from Fulton's journals, as revealed in Up: Part Two?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring the power structure of the city in The Intuitionist. Consider the power held by Arbo and United, the two big elevator manufacturers and the subsequent levels of power below them, including the Elevator Guild, the Institution, and inspectors like Lila Mae.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that explores the issue of race in the novel. How does race influence the events of the book? Why is it important that Lila Mae is a black woman?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that explores the setting of The Intuitionist. Consider the unidentified time and place, and the evidence that points to a particular period. Include a discussion of why Whitehead may have chosen to leave the setting ambiguous.

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