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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 had Nana told Audrey to call her?

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

3. What does Henry give his mother for Christmas?

4. Who shushes Henry as he staggers in from being abruptly awakened?

5. With which of the following does "18 December 2015" begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what is Audrey’s mother notable?

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

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

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

5. What reasons does Henry give for saying he means to attend Brown University?

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

7. What does Henry suggest would be the case if life were fair?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of We Are the Ants do so for the present novel? How or how not?

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. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

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