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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. Where is Darren when the novel begins?
2. What does Ziegler find he can understand, once he take the pill?
3. Where does Darren say he feels safe?
4. What did Jonathan ask his subjects to do for his dissertation research?
5. What drugs had Jonathan and Jane taken when they went to the Met?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Jonathan describe his relationship with Ziegler?
2. What is the setting for the opening of The Topeka School?
3. What is the story Amber told Adam in the car after they reconnected?
4. What happens in the Herman Hesse story Jonathan talks about?
5. How does Jane say Sima was different from the other therapists at the Foundation?
6. What was the memory Sima helped Jane uncover?
7. How does the narrator describe the importance of the spread beyond debate?
8. How does Jane characterize her relationship with Sima?
9. What are the kinds of things Darren finds and puts in his pockets and gauges his identity by?
10. What was Darren’s job, and how did he lose it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are the strengths and weaknesses of Ben Lerner’s representation of Darren, the developmentally delayed ex-student? Does this portrait ring true, or does it sound false, or caricaturish? What work does Darren’s character do for the narrative? How does his presence reveal the personalities of the other characters?
Essay Topic 2
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 3
In what way does The Topeka School serve as equipment for living? How does it help you evaluate claims in the real world, and make decisions? What kinds of decisions would this book likely help you make?
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