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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 was the name of Connie's first husband?

2. The doctors believe Skip's homosexuality is what?

3. Who is late to see Sappho before she dies?

4. In Luciente's time, an airborne transport is called what?

5. When Connie escapes from Gildina's world, she finds herself back in the ward with what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What message does Connie leave on Dawn's answering machine after she borrows money from Skip to make the phone call?

2. What dream does Connie lose herself in when she sits by the fire after escaping?

3. How do Chapters 15 and 16 motivate Connie?

4. What is a flimsy?

5. What is the goal of Dr. Redding's experiments?

6. What does Skip tell Connie when she visits him the night before he is sent home?

7. What help does Luciente provide when Connie escapes from the hospital?

8. Who controls the world in which Gildina lives?

9. What is the purpose of the demonstration Connie attends and Alice is the subject of?

10. How does Connie smuggle the poison into the hospital?

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

How are Connie's cell and Luciente's community opposites of each other? Include what the two things symbolize, what they represent, and how they are presented. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

How do Connie's underlying feelings of resentment and anger contribute to her problems? What is her resolution to the situation? Provide evidence from the book in support of your answer.

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