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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 is a student in Sadie’s class?

2. What Beethoven work does the flying Marx hear in passing?

3. In which of the following does Dov get married?

4. In what class did Ant and Simon meet?

5. As which of the following do Sadie and Marx refer to the child she carries?

Short Essay Questions

1. What initially prompted Marx to attend to Sam?

2. What is Sam’s method for avoiding the appearance of disability?

3. What core belief does Sam report in his TED talk?

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

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

6. Why does Alabaster suggest Emily stock greeting cards?

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

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

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

10. What joke does Marx make about the title of his memoir?

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

To what genre other than romance might Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The novel makes a number of comments about the nature of art. Taken together, they constitute something of a vision of art, generally. What is that vision, and how does the novel bear it out?

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