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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 does Sam’s neighbor name the area in which they both live?

2. As which of the following does Marx sign an email to Sam?

3. As which of the following does Dov refer to his son?

4. In which neighborhood does Sadie grow up?

5. In what area do Sam’s grandparents live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sam dislike sex?

2. Why is the initial title for Sam and Ant’s first game rejected?

3. How does a young Sadie envision caution as a creature (14)?

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

5. How does Sam know what he knows about his father?

6. Why does Marx love theatre?

7. Why does Sam not inquire into the circumstances of Sadie’s depression?

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

9. From what does the building in which Sadie lives draw its name?

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

The comment is made in the novel that “There is no more intimate act than play, even sex” (21). Does the novel bear out the comment? Does experience? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow? By which groups? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the name of any one game the protagonists develop.

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