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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. Which of the following does Marx have Sadie and Sam read?

2. Which of the following does Marx read while accompanying Sam to his orthopedist?

3. Which of the following is prescribed to Tuesday?

4. What are the dimensions of the subway Magic Eye poster?

5. Which of the following instruments does Zoe play?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sam’s veterinarian affirm that Tuesday is not a coyote?

2. What does Mazer assert is the alternative to appropriation (78)?

3. Why does Sadie not want Alice to meet Sam?

4. What reason does Sam note for the lack of creativity in the second game he and Sadie make together?

5. What regret does Marx’s father voice?

6. How does Sam react to Sadie’s game engine design, and how does she react to his reaction?

7. How does the novel remark that “To allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk” (21)?

8. Why does Sadie prefer Sam as a creative partner to the idea of Sam as a lover?

9. Why do video game characters typically remain the same throughout their games, per the novel (104)?

10. How does a player win the first level of Mapletown?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A character in the novel remarks that “the people who give you charity are never your friends. It is not possible to receive charity from a friend” (23). Is the character’s remark correct? What in the novel and in experience indicate as much, and how do they do so?

Essay Topic 2

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 3

Which character is the deuteragonist in the text—that is, the most important after the protagonists? How does the work support such an assertion?

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