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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 is the name of the local paper?

2. Which of the following is a student in Sadie’s class?

3. How many years older than Sadie is Dov?

4. Which of the following does Simon note is his favorite German word?

5. What is Daedalus’s first name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What addition to Mapleworld does Sam make for Pioneers?

2. What does Zevin note as of interest about her novel’s typeface?

3. What scene confronts Sam when he returns to his office after the shooting?

4. What does Sadie note attracted her to Pioneers?

5. Why does Ant express a preference for working on digital worlds?

6. What is the format of the class Sadie teaches?

7. What sadness does Marx purpose to express (284)?

8. To what is the initial success of Mapleworld ascribed?

9. Why does Sadie assert there should be marriages in Mapleworld?

10. Why does Emily give her neighbors rocks?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Zevin’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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