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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 does Hector want Zoyd to do?

2. How many people are the soldiers who board Zoyd's flight looking for?

3. Who was Frenesi rescued by reluctantly when she became a witness?

4. Who does Hector want to talk to Zoyd about?

5. What does Trent tell Zoyd about his home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Zoyd hoping that the card will do for Prairie after all this time?

2. What complications arise when Flash gets nervous and tells Frenesi to cash their latest check as soon as possible?

3. Why does Zoyd find his request funny and what does he recommend instead?

4. What is the purpose of Zoyd's regular trips up into the hills?

5. What does Zoyd do in preparation for his annual display of insanity in order to qualify for the government mental disability checks?

6. Where does Zoyd's association with Hector begin?

7. What impact are the soldiers having on Zoyd's life so far?

8. Despite the new life that Frenesi has, her new husband Flash, and their son Justin, what does Frenesi spend a great deal of time thinking about?

9. Where does Frenesi meet her current husband, Flash, and what do they have in common?

10. What is more disconcerting to Zoyd than even his daughter's choice of boyfriend right now?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Zoyd go to Hawaii? How does he earn his way there? What is odd about the flights that is different from the usual commercial flights? How does Frenesi react when she sees Zoyd? What kind of encounter to do they have, and what does Frenesi do immediately afterward? How does this affect Zoyd and what is his reaction? What is the hotel manager afraid of?

Essay Topic 2

Why did Brock spend so much time and attention to the details of the facial and cranial structure of each of the people arrested and taken to his Political Re-Education Program? What philosophy did he subscribe to that made him believe that he could predict criminal tendencies in his prisoners?

Essay Topic 3

What began the revolution at the College of the Surf? What did the students discover that made them take drastic action and initiate change? How did they go about this change? What did they call themselves and what documentary company covered the events? How did this company get the access they wanted? Who led them into this new era?

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