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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 drug does Marx note Zoe had wanted him to try?

2. Which of the following does Marx offer the intruders into his office?

3. Which of the following flowers is delivered to Marx’s hospital room?

4. Where does a bullet lodge inside Marx?

5. Which of the following truffles is the most valuable in game?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Marx hesitate to tell Sam of his romance with Sadie?

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

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

5. Why does Alabaster suggest Emily stock greeting cards?

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

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

8. What does Sadie note attracted her to Pioneers?

9. Why does Marx value the end of The Iliad?

10. How does the novel define the term NPC?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow do so for the present novel? How or how not?

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