View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ziegler find he can understand, once he take the pill?
(a) The language of music.
(b) The language of things.
(c) The language of clouds.
(d) The language of animals.

2. What issue did the Westboro Baptist Church protest?
(a) Government regulations.
(b) Homosexuality.
(c) Abortion.
(d) War.

3. Whose names did Bob Dole read at the high school debate tournament?
(a) The names of the finalists.
(b) The names of retiring teachers.
(c) The names of prominent donors.
(d) The names of recent war dead.

4. How far apart were Adam and Jason born?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 4 weeks.
(d) 4 days.

5. Where did Darren have a job?
(a) A grocery store.
(b) An Army surplus store.
(c) An auto repair shop.
(d) A junkyard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Darren’s therapist’s response when Darren lost his job?

2. How long was Adam unconscious after his concussion?

3. What is the word for the figures Adam sees behind his eyes?

4. What was Dr. Erwood’s specialty at the Topeka Foundation?

5. Whose house does Adam enter at the beginning of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What emotions does Jane associate with having neglected to order airline tickets for a family trip?

2. What was it that the Foundation community found humorous when Jonathan screened the film he made of the Ziegler story?

3. What was Darren’s job, and how did he lose it?

4. What is the spread and why is it controversial?

5. What was the memory Sima helped Jane uncover?

6. What is Adam’s relationship with Dr. Erwood?

7. What are the kinds of things Darren finds and puts in his pockets and gauges his identity by?

8. What significance does Darren attribute to the paper banner cheerleaders hold up for the football team to run through?

9. How did fame change things for Jane?

10. What is the setting for the opening of The Topeka School?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,087 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample