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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. With which of the following does the Epilogue begin?

2. In which of the following does Gratz live?

3. Which of the following is Miami called?

4. Which of the following does Natalie use to get to Patience’s apartment?

5. Where in Washington does the rally take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does George’s father make a living after losing his job at the port?

2. Why does Natalie question whether she can resume her friendship with Shannon?

3. Why does Akira initially wonder if the plane she sees overhead is lost?

4. How does the novel describe Akira’s second-degree burn (2248)?

5. Why does Patience rail against the vigilantes?

6. How does the novel explain what a bald in the Sierra Nevada is?

7. What leads Owen to consider the ruination of Churchill?

8. Why does Akira agree to participate in the rally in Washington?

9. What urges Natalie to seek shelter with Patience?

10. Why does Lars assert his house is safe from fire?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Gratz’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

At several points, the novel confronts its characters with corpses inside cars. What purpose does the specific imagery serve, what in the novel attests to that purpose, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Conversely, which of Akira, George, Owen, and Natalie gains the most? What in the text shows as much, and how does it do so?

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