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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. Whom of the following is an inventor of Mind’s Eye?

2. At which of the following restaurants do the Dentons and Diego eat on Christmas Eve?

3. What does Marcus give Henry for Christmas?

4. What does Henry compare his belly button to?

5. Which Doctor Who actor does Audrey prefer?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Nana describe her experience with Kenny Highcastle?

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

4. What opportunities to out Marcus does Henry note having had?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Dates figure prominently into the novel. How might the novel have differed were it set in a different time than it occupies? Why would it be different in such ways?

Essay Topic 3

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

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