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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 does Simmons spend a great deal of time describing in Chapter 16?

2. Who writhes in pain on the floor after a recent meeting with Cognani?

3. Who orders the actions for the bodies to be moved into Stasis?

4. Where does the secret passage Raul takes with the Pax security lead?

5. Who rips off the cyborg's head and tosses it into the river at the end of Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aenea describe to Raul once they arrive in Hannibal, Missouri?

2. What is Task Force GIDEON?

3. Describe the Taliesin West in Chapter 2.

4. Who is Rachel Weintraub?

5. What sends Raul into free fall again in Chapter 12?

6. What happens to Raul in Lock Childe Lamonde?

7. Whom does Kenso Isosaki want destroyed and why?

8. Describe how Simmons gives unusual attention to the environment of the mountains at the Temple Hanging in the Air.

9. Why is Lenar Hoyt significant?

10. What happens as Raul enters the farcaster?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Isosaki's leadership of the Pax Mercantilus reflective of a writing flaw in Simmon's writing? Why does it prove such flawed development?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and explain how Rachel's role and heritage is a shock for Raul. Why is this information significant?

Essay Topic 3

Explain and discuss how the community of Lock Childe Lamonde demonstrated a resistance to converting to Catholicism.

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