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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 happens to Ijiro's Shield Society?

2. What does Kondo Tatsumi see in Tomonaga Ijiro's path?

3. What does "The Whacko" tell a tree during his interview with the narrator?

4. What is a "hibakusha?"

5. What were "fragdogs?"

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author end with Todd Wainio's story?

2. How are Jesika Hendricks and Mary Jo Miller different in the way they place blame in Chapter 8?

3. Explain why the soldiers in Chapter 4 kill innocent people, and how they feel about these actions.

4. Why is Michael Choi so upset by the extinction of whales on Earth, as well as the deaths of most of the Earth's marine life?

5. Why did the narrator speak to so many different people during the story?

6. Explain the importance of Radio Free Earth during the war.

7. What will happen to Breckinridge Scott after the war?

8. Explain the importance of royalty during the war, according to Allen Forbes.

9. Explain the role of Russian priests during the war, and how the role developed..

10. How do Philip Adler and Jurgen Warmbrunn feel now that the war is over?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define the four types of conflict and give an example of each from World War Z.

Essay Topic 2

Identify the elements of a story arc. Identify the plot points in World War Z that correspond with the elements of a story arc.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the opening scene in World War Z. Why does the author open the story with this scene? What "stage" does this scene set for the rest of the story?

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