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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. What is located at the front of the space shuttle orbiter?

2. Richard received a letter from a feminist group after a few of his lectures were published. What was Richard's short reply to this letter?

3. What is located at the back end of the space shuttle orbiter?

4. In what year was Richard finally able to oblige the university that wanted him to speak?

5. How high were the ceilings in the Grand Hotel room that Richard was staying in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the auditorium in the United Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland that Richard took a tour of.

2. What did Richard's friends, Al Hibbs and Dick Davies, tell Richard he should do about being asked to be on the investigation committee of the Challenger accident?

3. When Richard is describing the shuttle, what does he say is the large, central part of the shuttle, and what does this part contain?

4. Why were there a lot of new buildings in Warsaw, Poland?

5. After Richard finished philosophizing with the taxi driver, where did the taxi driver take him?

6. What happened when Arlene found a summer job in Scituate, taking care of children to be close to Richard?

7. How did Richard's friend from Los Alamos explain to him how she may have mistakenly thought that he knew Herman?

8. What happens to the large central part of the shuttle a few minutes after a shuttle launch?

9. When did Richard finally cry after his wife passed away?

10. Why did Richard tell Gweneth and Michelle that he had to write with a paper on his lap when he wrote his letter from the Royal Olympic Hotel in Athens?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe one of your favorite individuals in the book. Expound on their characteristics and values that you find intriguing. Describe what their importance in the book was.

Essay Topic 2

Describe Gweneth's role in Richard's life. Compare and contrast the relationship of Gweneth and Richard to the relationship between Arlene and Richard. Use specific information from the book to support your analysis.

Essay Topic 3

Describe what the tenth recommendation in the report was. Expound on the objections that Richard had to this "recommendation" and what kind of run-around he got about it. Describe the end result of Richard's complaining about the tenth recommendation.

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