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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. To what does D-503 refer as an error by God?

2. At what times are the citizens of the One State allowed personal time?

3. After he has not written for days, what color does the narrator keep referring to as how the world appears?

4. What object in I-330's room does D-503 forget the name of?

5. What is the One State's torture device called?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does D-503 feel about being followed by S?

2. What is the One State's perception of love?

3. What is the Gas Bell?

4. What is the nature of D-503's illness, according to the doctor at the Medical Office?

5. Why is the Integral being built?

6. When, according to D-503, does man cease to be a savage?

7. What is the Ancient House?

8. How does the narrator describe the character called I-330?

9. What does D-503 realize that his writings for the Integral have become?

10. What is the fate of the criminal whose sentencing the whole One State attends?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze D-503's feelings toward I-330. How do they evolve? Do they come full circle? Does he even fully understand them? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss plot vs. narrative in the novel. How do we learn more about the themes, symbols, etc. of the story? Through action? From the narrator's assessment of action?

Essay Topic 3

Explain, argue, or defend the notion that "We" is a dystopian novel or a work of science fiction. Can it be both? What elements clearly place it in either category (or both)? Is it just a far-fetched story, or is there an underlying lesson?

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