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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. In the italicized section of Chapter 5, what is the real reason he changed his major?
2. In the italicized section of Chapter 5, what is the girl's doctor's proper name?
3. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 6, the next time the guys in suits show up, who do they show Bobby a picture of that he recognizes?
4. In the italicized section of Chapter 7, what is the dummy made out of?
5. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 8, where does Brat get admitted to school?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who does Bobby meet after talking to the guys in suits again?
2. What does Kline think is happening to Bobby in regard to Bobby doing dumb things?
3. What does the IRS do to Bobby?
4. Who shows up in the girl's recovery room? How do they look? What is the girl's response?
5. After Bobby's meeting with the IRS agent, he meets up with Kline. What does Kline say about the shape of his own life and how is that a contrast to Bobby's life?
6. Over the winter, Bobby has a dream of a doctor and a nurse showing him something and asking if Bobby wants to show that something to her. What is the thing that they are discussing and who is the "her"?
7. What does the IRS agent at the post office say is the reason for the IRS becoming involved in Bobby's life?
8. One night while Bobby is in Wartburg, Bobby mentions Alice's papers. Who is Alice? What happened to her?
9. Who visits Bobby while he is living alone in a shack by the beach? Why does the person who visits Bobby say that he is there?
10. As a child what does Bobby find in the woods?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Alicia talks about the deep heart of number and the separation between the source of a mathematical conjecture's creation and the value of a mathematical conjecture once it is written down. She says that if left unwritten, a mathematical conjecture may provide some insight into the deep core of reality. What is the paradox of something separate from reality being able to explain reality? How is that connected to conscious and the subconscious? Between Alicia who tries to make sense and the Kid who tries to make unsense?
Essay Topic 2
Bobby thinks that he knows no other state of being than loneliness. Where does his loneliness come from? What happens to him on the jack-up rig when he is truly alone? Is there a distinction between the feeling of loneliness amongst people and the experience of truly being alone? What does Bobby say finally soothes his experience of solitude on the jack-up rig?
Essay Topic 3
Why does the author include a lengthy conversation about who killed John F. Kennedy? What is your experience of reading this section? How is this lengthy conversation a different experience than the one about math and physics? What are you able to grasp from a careful reading of this conversation? How does this conversation connect to the idea of reality compared to the perception of reality? Or the idea that perception shapes reality?
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