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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 is the name of Nora's doctor?

2. Why does the Outsider hate the dog so much?

3. What mainly was the color of the dress he bought for her?

4. The Outsider perceives itself to be ______?

5. What does the Outsider ask Travis to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Nora teach Einstein to communicate and what did she learn from this communication?

2. What was the purpose behind Yarbeck's creation?

3. How does Einstein's communication via the tiles convince Dr. Keene to keep him free?

4. What is Nora's position on Einstein leaving?

5. Why was it that Lem couldn't tolerate failure?

6. How did Travis feel with Nora gone?

7. How was teaching Einstein having a beneficial effect on Nora?

8. How did the Outsider inspire pity in Travis?

9. What did Vince do that he didn't think would have been acceptable by Don Tetragna, and what did he do to prepare himself for this outcome?

10. Why did Travis buy a Scrabble board?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how you believe you would react to having an abnormally intelligent animal. What kind of things could you do with a normal dog versus what a dog of heightened intelligence might do? What has Einstein done to reassure his master of his intellect? What things in chapter two argue against and for the intelligence of Einstein?

Essay Topic 2

Explain how having a mental illness is more of a way of life than it was in earlier centuries. What do you think is responsible for this global shift in perspective? How has it become chic to have some sort of mild mental disorder? How are mental illnesses glamorized in the media? Who profits from mental illness?

Essay Topic 3

Explain how beauty, intelligence, and disfigurement are compared and contrasted against each other in this story. Does this aptly portray societal values? How so or why not?

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