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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 was Allison injured during the crash?
2. What does Irma force Wili to do as he settles into Paul's household?
3. How has Mike been working with the Authority?
4. What is Della Lu's specialization?
5. What was Wili's social status in the factions?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is unusual about the guests Paul receives at his house?
2. What is the relationship between the Tinkers and the Authority?
3. What happens to Jeremy as he, Wili, and Mike attempt to escape from the bioscience lab?
4. What is the Santa Yrez Police Company, and why are they present at the Old California Shopping Center?
5. What is Avery's attitude towards the Tinkers?
6. Explain the factors that contributed to Wili's decision to stay with Paul.
7. According to the bioscientists, what is the nature of and cure for Wili's disease?
8. What does Red Arrow Industries produce?
9. Who was Sylvester, and what did he do for Wili?
10. Why does Paul not accompany Wili to the chess tournament?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Technology plays an important role throughout the novel. The Authority and the Tinkers have fundamental disagreements about how it should be pursued and employed, and these disagreements lead to the central conflict of the book.
1) Explain the Authority's position on technology and describe some of the technologies it has banned outright and those which it has reserved solely for itself.
2) Describe how the Tinkers interact with technology and how they are able to make significant advances despite their limitations.
3) Discuss the impact that these two competing forces have on the average people in this setting. What technologies are available, and how are they controlled or acquired?
4) Explain why the Authority and the Tinkers come into direct conflict over the issue of technology and how their disagreements shape the overall plot of the novel.
Essay Topic 2
Avery, the leader of the Authority in its base of power, the west coast of the United States, begins the novel as a suspicious but effective leader. As events progress, he slowly looses his grasp on sanity, and it becomes clear he has allowed his obsessions to get the better of him.
1) Discuss Avery as a character and a leader. What are his most important defining traits, what makes him an effective leader, and how did he come to a position of power within the Authority?
2) Describe the obsessions that plague Avery and how he struggles with them. Cite examples of Avery either overcoming or being defeated by these obsessions and describe how these events affect his psyche.
3) Explain Avery's final descent into madness, its causes, and its effects on the final conflict with the Tinkers.
Essay Topic 3
The final chapters of the book center around the final conflict between the Tinkers and the Authority. After Paul and the others are discovered, a large battle ensues, raging in the area around the Authority enclave for multiple days.
1) Briefly explain the events leading up to the final conflict between the Tinkers and the Authority and the reasons both sides have for engaging in the conflict.
2) Discuss the major advantages both sides bring to the battle, including factors such as intelligence, planning, numbers, and technology.
3) Describe the course of the battle, including its major events and resolution.
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