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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. Who is a third person to join Adrian in placing nickels in Henry’s gym locker?

2. What is prohibited at Henry’s high school for Halloween?

3. Who discovers time travel in the novel?

4. What is Henry’s neighbor's name?

5. What is Diego’s favorite cereal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons for his assault does Henry consider telling Sandoval?

2. How does Henry note his mother treats Nana’s meatloaf?

3. Why does the narrator describe kissing as “ridiculous” (1)?

4. What reasons does the narrator give for noting that other versions of ourselves are living better lives than we are?

5. What does Henry’s mother remark that Nana’s status was before she moved in with the Dentons?

6. Why does Henry note that “Dreams are hopeful” (135)?

7. How do people react to the appearance of the world-killing asteroid?

8. To what is North Korea’s final aggression ascribed?

9. What displaces the video of death-by-housecat from YouTube’s top-viewed spot?

10. How does Henry note wanting Faraci to be (88)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. How might the novel be sectioned off other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?

Essay Topic 2

To what genre other than science fiction might We Are the Ants be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Ultimately, are the aliens in the novel real? How does the novel change if they are or are not? Why does it change in that way or those ways?

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