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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. How many centuries away is Bisesa from home?

2. Who is not troubled by being confined?

3. What is the greatest animal brought forward for the amusement of the Golden family?

4. What is the phone's project?

5. What do the cosmonauts come up against?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Captain Grove as isolated as Bisesa?

2. Who do Sable and Kolya eventually meet and what is Sable's reaction to this person?

3. What things disgust both Kolya and Sable?

4. Why does the notion of heading to Babylon appeal to both the Macedonians and the British?

5. Why does Moallim attack the chopper?

6. Why does the crew of the Soyuz have to land near people?

7. Why does Seeker put Grasper beneath her and let Grasper take shelter?

8. For what reasons does it become obvious to Bisesa why the people love Alexander?

9. Describe Lahore.

10. Who does Sable finally manage to get in contact with? What pleases her besides this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the theme of Time's Eye. Is there a moral of the story or an underlying current of value to the story? Is it strictly a work of fiction and no more? What evidence from the book leads you to these conclusions?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the different view points of the characters. How do they influence the development of the story? Speculate on how the story would have progressed without the secondary characters.

Essay Topic 3

Provide a reason as to why Bisesa's time frame is not sampled. How does this make life all the more difficult for Bisesa and the people from the twenty-first century? What kinds of things has to be retaught to the remaining humanity and what revolutions are likely to occur within a short period of time?

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