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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Darren say he feels safe?
(a) In Jonathan’s office.
(b) In tunnels of brush.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) In his house.

2. What does the narrator say Darren would use to ward off insults?
(a) Acting.
(b) Magic.
(c) Chants.
(d) Curses.

3. What does Adam say these figures can trigger?
(a) Psychotic hallucinations
(b) Cancer.
(c) Vomiting.
(d) Seizures.

4. What distinguishes Kenneth Erwood in Topeka?
(a) He is black.
(b) He is a MacArthur Genius grant winner.
(c) He is an outspoken anti-war protestor.
(d) He is openly gay.

5. Who was Jonathan about to leave, when he read the Ziegler story?
(a) His first wife.
(b) His high school girlfriend.
(c) His second wife.
(d) His parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ziegler hear, once he can understand this language?

2. Where is Darren when the novel begins?

3. How far apart were Adam and Jason born?

4. What was the first instance Jane recalled of watching herself ignore her own knowledge?

5. Where is Adam at the beginning of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the importance of the spread beyond debate?

2. What is the story Amber told Adam in the car after they reconnected?

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

4. What is the setting for the first full chapter, after the brief prologue?

5. What was the memory Sima helped Jane uncover?

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

7. How does Jane say Sima was different from the other therapists at the Foundation?

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

9. What happens in the Herman Hesse story Jonathan talks about?

10. How does the narrator characterize Adam’s role in the debate team?

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