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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 many names are people in Luciente's community known by?

2. What is Dolly's relationship to Geraldo?

3. After Connie sees the dentist and the doctor, who comes to visit her?

4. What style is Chapter 2 written in?

5. When Chapter 3 begins, what type of cell is Connie in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Connie answer the questions from Redding about whether she has experienced headaches or blackouts?

2. What are some words that might characterize the future world Luciente describes in Chapter 2?

3. Describe Connie Ramos.

4. What events does Chapter 2 narrate?

5. How do the children learn in Luciente's community?

6. How does Luciente get Connie to travel to the future the first time?

7. While Connie is contemplating being called a receiver, what does she feel?

8. Describe the closeness of Luciente's community with nature.

9. Who was Claud and what happened to him?

10. How did Connie lose Angelina?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the changing of names in the future relate to the psychoanalytical premise that an individual's personality consists of different facets? Show, using examples from the book, how Connie exhibits this.

Essay Topic 2

Explain, using examples from the book, how the people Connie meets in the present and the future become allies and inspiration in her struggle for self-respect and freedom.

Essay Topic 3

How do Connie and Luciente's ideas of freedom differ? Support your answer using specific examples from the book.

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