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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. The stranger, who rescues Al, is frightened of __________.

2. When Al Capone's group overtakes the mayor's office, how many of the mayor's staff members are corralled into the deputy health director's office?

3. Approximately how big is the power surge that Rubra felt come in with Kiera's affinity command?

4. How many of New California's navy ships are on permanent assignment to the Confederation Navy fleets?

5. As Chapter 5 begins, what emerges from the wormhole?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the girls' rescuer say that he can hear inside the body he is possessing?

2. Why can Al Capone not datavise anyone?

3. What does Avram Harwood's staff deal with in running the operations center for Capone's Organization?

4. According to Al Capone, what do the people of the future decidedly lack?

5. Why does Al Capone accuse the stranger who rescues him off the street of being a Communist?

6. What was so unusual about the airport when Jezzibella's tour convoy arrives to leave San Angeles?

7. Why does Jezzibella's manager select an early morning departure for Jezzibella's tour convoy out of San Angeles?

8. According to the stranger who rescues Al Capone off the street, what is the ultimate goal of the group that the stranger is taking Al to?

9. When Jezzibella offers to go along with Al, Al tells her she can accompany him if she does what she is told. How does Jezzibella respond?

10. When the space plane's pilot learns that some of the space plane's passengers will have to remain aboard the space plane, what does the pilot request from Sarha Mitcham?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast how the character of Louise Kavanaugh changes as the story progresses. Be sure to include your assessment of Louise's character when she is first introduced in the story, when she flees from her family's estate, when she travels through space with Fletcher, and when she wants to pursue Quinn's ship.

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the story, there are several situations where a character's life is in danger.

a. Identify at least three instances where one of the characters is in danger. Describe the situation and how the character escapes from danger.

b. Compare and contrast the dangerous situations in which others are attempting to harm your identified characters. What is the motivation in each of these situations to do harm?

Essay Topic 3

In many ways, the novel is a series of contrasts designed to heighten the reader's awareness and draw the reader deeper into the story and the intricacies of each of the story's characters. Identify at least three contrasts that are used in the novel. Describe these contrasts and determine how they impact the story's plot, as well as the reader's emotional involvement in the characters' lives. If these identified contrasts were not included in the story, what impact would their absence have on the storyline, the characters' development, and the readers' involvement?

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