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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 odor does blood have?

2. What i one of the functions of the eye?

3. What is in the ceramic cup?

4. What is eerie about Babylon?

5. What does Kolya prevent?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bisesa believe that causality has broken down?

2. What things does Bisesa retrieve from the Little Bird?

3. Why does Kolya wish he could keep talking with Casey? Why is this?

4. What is Josh's idea regarding the animal kingdom of Mir?

5. What does Kolya explain and what is the Mongol's reaction?

6. What does Bisesa finally tell Ruddy what will happen to him later in life?

7. How do the soldiers look at Bisesa and why does she suspect they have started to look at her more often?

8. What kinds of things does the Eye compel Seeker and Grasper to do?

9. What is Bisesa's fear and who echoes it?

10. Why does Alexander want to parlay?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the concept of this book. How does it offer a unique perspective on time travel? What credibility does it have? esearch the author's comments on this book. What does it reveal?

Essay Topic 2

Speculate on Seeker and Grasper's viewpoint of the storyline. Does it add to the story in any major way? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Bisesa pleads with the eye, explaining that she had "done all they asked." What kinds of things regarding Bisesa's relationship with Josh, the conflict between Bisesa and Sable, and the continued study of the eye might have been at the Eye's behest? What leads you to believe this?

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