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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 was the name of the hotel that Melipone disappeared from?

2. How much was Joe's coffee?

3. Who was it that Joe was infatuated with?

4. What are the walls coated with in the isolated chamber?

5. What was the second symbol Joe drew?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would Ella not like to be in isolation?

2. Why was activating Ella a sin against her?

3. What is an Artiforg and what does it do?

4. Provide reasons as to why Joe Chip is stressed in this chapter.

5. What typo is in this chapter?

6. What is a half-life?

7. How does Ella explain half-life, and why did Ella believe that he would never fully understand it?

8. What is the reason to fear the telepaths, according to the anti-PSI agency?

9. In what state does Joe find Wendy?

10. Why did Runciter immediately want to pack everything up?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Pat as a primary antagonist in the story. What clues point to her as being the main force opposing the group of Runciter Associates? In what regard does she seem like the perfect adversary for Joe?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Jory as a deity. In what way is he a god in the half life world? In what way is he like the god of the underworld? In what ways does he closely resemble a god?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the repeated references to cigarettes in this novel. How does this relate to the culture of the day in which the novel was written? How have things changed in regards to the references to smoking in literature?

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