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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 does the narrator pass on the way to get a cake for Penny?
2. To which of the following does Octavia compare Dinah?
3. Which of the following do the narrator and Nigel encounter at the grocery store?
4. Which of the following does the narrator note is the active ingredient in the antimelanin tincture?
5. Which of the following positions does Jan Galton-van Riebeeck hold in BEG?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does the narrator give for disliking Araminta?
2. How does the narrator report imagining Dr. Nzinga?
3. What significance accrues to Armbruster signing a company that he and Octavia had worked on together?
4. What does the narrator identify as “The problem with going to a grocery store when you’re the noncooking partner” (215)?
5. How does the narrator describe his preferred workspace in the wake of Penny’s death?
6. What message does Jo Jo leave for the narrator when he leaves?
7. How is “the original ADZE” described (218)?
8. What does the narrator note as the inciting incident for his wanting to have Nigel demelanized?
9. What image does the narrator report BEG uses to conceive of the United States?
10. What reasons are given for disbelief in ADZE’s complicity in the mall attack?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
If there is a villain in the novel—a focal “bad” character—who is it most likely to be, and why?
Essay Topic 2
Sources attest to the presence of We Cast a Shadow on bestseller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of Ruffin’s novel? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
The narrator relates the following anecdote: “Last year one of the transactions shareholders had died cradling a telephone. No one noticed until Accounting came by to check his invoices. When they touched his shoulder, his body exhaled” (23-24). What does the brief anecdote indicate about the narrator’s company, and how does it do so?
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