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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. How does D-503 describe the shape of R-13's face?

2. What does D-503 think of S-4711 as, and what does he say that he will start calling him?

3. How is D-503 informed that I-330 has registered herself to him?

4. What term does D-503 use to describe his hands?

5. To what does D-503 compare the lips of the thin doctor?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the significance of pink coupons in the One State?

3. How does D-503 see his relationships with R-13 and O-90?

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

5. What does D-503 think is an error made by God?

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

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

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

9. What is written in the first letter that D-503 receives?

10. How does the narrator describe the men working on the construction of the Integral?

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 the primary differences between "We" and "They" in the story? Which is stronger within the story? Answer the narrator's question "Who are they?"

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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