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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 non-italicized section of Chapter 5, how does John sum up Bobby's history?
2. In the italicized section of Chapter 7, what does the dummy in the trunk say his name is?
3. In the italicized section of Chapter 5, who gives the girl's father the snazzy fountain pen?
4. In the italicized section of Chapter 6, the girl sees a younger version herself in what the Kid shows to her. What is the younger version of the girl doing?
5. In the non-italicized section of Chapter 5, what is the most notable thing that Bobby's father is professionally a part of during World War II?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who does Bobby meet after talking to the guys in suits again?
2. Who shows up in the girl's recovery room? How do they look? What is the girl's response?
3. Why does Bobby go back Wartburg, Tennessee after his conversation with Asher?
4. In the opening of the non-italicized section of Chapter 6, where is Bobby and what is he doing?
5. In Chapter 5, when Bobby meets Sheddan for lunch, at the beginning of their conversation how does Sheddan describe Bobby as an archetypal figure?
6. What cathartic exclamations does Bobby make at the end of his visit with the person who comes to visit Bobby while Bobby is living alone in a shack by the beach?
7. One night while Bobby is in Wartburg, Bobby mentions Alice's papers. Who is Alice? What happened to her?
8. 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"?
9. What is Bobby's response to the IRS agent at the post office?
10. In the italicized section of Chapter 5, what does the Kid tell the girl about math and reality before she goes to bed?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does the author include a lengthy section of conversation about math and physics? What is your experience reading this section? Does it have a connection to the rest of the story? What do you get out of reading a conversation like that, that is difficult for a lot of people to understand?
Essay Topic 2
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 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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