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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. Which of the following entrees does Nana suggest cooking?

2. Who causes the end of the world?

3. What is Henry’s neighbor's name?

4. Under what flower do the Dentons keep a spare key?

5. With which of the following does "8 September 2015" begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What occasions the end of the world via nanobot?

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

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

7. What is the initial reaction to the development of nanobots?

8. What is the first event prevented by time travelers in the novel?

9. How does Henry assert that “God surely meant for humans to live” (23)?

10. What does Nana note is the comfort of old age?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the overall philosophical outlook of the novel? What in the text substantiates that outlook, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 3

Readerly attention focuses on the following comment: “I tried to think of the right thing to say, but sometimes the right thing to say is nothing” (122). Does the novel affirm or deny the comment, overall? What in the text indicates that summative affirmation or denial? How does it do so?

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