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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. How many waterfalls does Petra see as she exits the shuttle in Chapter 17?
2. What did Robert make from the jasper he and Petra collected?
3. What color tonic does Epsilon-5 pour for Petra in Chapter 23?
4. In Chapter 21, what food does Petra think of as she lies down in her cell and closes her eyes?
5. In Chapter 22, what does Petra use to open the door from the room with the relics to Voxy's quarters?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Petra notice when she collects underwater plant samples in Chapter 17?
2. Why and how does Petra try to help Len?
3. In Chapter 17, what are a group of people doing at a workstation?
4. How does Voxy handle the Prawn when he and Petra run into him at the elevators in Chapter 22?
5. How does Petra decide to try to render the toxin useless?
6. In Chapter 23, what jobs do the Zetas have to do?
7. Why does Petra investigate a bright-green plant with red-rimmed leaves, and what does she discover?
8. What happens to Len and why?
9. How does Petra tell the Chancellor she can improve on the toxin that Epsilon-5 created and why?
10. Where are the relics stored that Voxy and Petra find?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
An allusion is a figure of speech that does not directly refer to a person, place, or thing. What are some allusions in The Last Cuentista? Why might it be difficult to decipher an allusion just by the context of a passage in a book? How do the allusions HIguera uses help readers’ understanding of characters or concepts?
Essay Topic 2
The Chancellor believes the Collective and its goals are more important than the safety of one man. How does the Collective seem to treat individuality? Does the Collective seem to be working for the greater good of the group--not individuals?
Essay Topic 3
Verisimilitude ensures that even a story that is science fiction is rooted in reality and plausible. How does Higuera create a believable world in The Last Cuentista?
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