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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 Nana’s first car?

2. Which of the following is the first nation to incentivize long-term Mind’s Eye use?

3. With which of the following does "21 December 2015" begin?

4. What is the latest copyright listed on the computing engine?

5. What game does Henry invite Diego over to play?

Short Essay Questions

1. What injuries does Diego suffer after his sister falls from a cottonwood tree?

2. How does Henry describe Nana’s care facility when he makes his first visit there?

3. What does Henry assert would be worse than finding the dead body of one’s child?

4. What reason does Henry posit for mothers thinking their sons handsome?

5. What happens after the last hive of honeybees dies?

6. How does Henry understand Marcus’s self-concept?

7. How does Henry note his mother discouraged him and Charlie from rising early on Christmas?

8. For what reasons does Henry abandon searching for his father?

9. For what is Audrey’s mother notable?

10. Why are there no resource wars as the sun dims?

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

Overall, what is the most important theme of We Are the Ants. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Readerly attention focuses on the following comment: “Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love’s only demand is that we fall” (5). 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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