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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 the subject of the film Faraci plays on the last day of school before the holiday break?

2. In what year is the plight of bees first noticed?

3. In what country are glaciers noted to form?

4. With which of the following does "4 November 2015" begin?

5. With which of the following does "30 November 2015" begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect does the use of Mind’s Eye have on society?

2. How does Henry’s mother note having secured her new job?

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

4. Why does Marcus reportedly think Zac vandalized his car?

5. What explanation does Henry give for having poor handwriting?

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

7. On New Year’s Eve, how does Audrey encourage Henry to pursue a relationship with Diego?

8. Audrey asks Henry why “people who so obviously hate children have so many of them” (319). What is Henry’s response?

9. What does Zooey tell Henry that she sees in Charlie?

10. Per the novel, when will the sun rise and set on Calypso on 1 May 2091?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel interpolates a series of end-of-the-world scenarios. What function is served by the inclusion of those scenarios, and how does that function emerge?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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