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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. What is Adelina's response?

2. What does Six tell Same about the thing that pulses?

3. Where is Marina's cave?

4. What does Six suggest John do?

5. When does Marina want to return to her cave?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does John ask Six about concerning a second ship that left Lorien and what was John's vision about the ship?

2. When will Marina turn eighteen and what is the significance of her eighteenth birthday?

3. What do John and the others do as the officer uses his Taser on Sam?

4. How does John take the officer's gun away and what does John do with the gun?

5. What would happen if the police radios in information about stopping John and the others, and what does the policeman assume about them?

6. How is a friendship developing between Marina and Ella?

7. How does Six escape the prison and the Mogs?

8. What catches Six's attention of the things John finds in his chest?

9. How does Marina hide her tracks to the cave and what Legacy is triggered when she first finds the cave?

10. Where are Six and John's Cepans and what does that mean?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are a number of interesting questions raised by "The Power of Six". Questions that Lore most likely want readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:

1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?

2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Lore's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Lore's probable agenda concerning that idea.

2. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?

3. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?

4. Research the life of Lore and see if/where his life may have influenced his writing.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast the setting and world of "The Power of Six" to that of "real" life. What are the advantages to each world? The disadvantages?

2. In which world would you rather live in if you possess no supernatural abilities? Explain your response.

3. In which world would you rather live in if you possess legacy abilities and the Mogadarians are the rulers of the world where you could practice your powers? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?

2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of "The Power of Six", identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?

3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements in "The Power of Six". (The subplots may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not?

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