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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 answer does Jack receive when she tests whether it is Hel with whom she texts?
2. How high up is the train window through which Jack escapes?
3. In what area does Cole live?
4. From which Sunsmile employee does Jack take a security pass image?
5. What stone is in Jack’s ring?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does Jack recognize for others to regard her as homeless?
2. To what does Jack ascribe stiff hands when she wakes at Cole’s girlfriend’s cottage?
3. Why does Jack refuse to let Cole take her to a hospital?
4. How had Jack and Hel arranged to handle the meeting with Leadbetter?
5. What piece of information in Sunsmile sticks out when Jack reviews their policy on Gabe?
6. How does Jack test whether it is Hel with whom she texts?
7. Why does Jack posit her last bandage fits poorly?
8. Why does Jack note feeling better as she approaches Sunsmile?
9. Why had Gabe monitored dark marketplaces?
10. Why does Jack note trusting Hel’s opinion even above Gabe’s?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
To what genre other than thriller might Zero Days be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
The character concept of the Mary Sue—an idealized female character, nearly always the protagonist, possessing many skills and few if any significant character flaws—originates in fan fiction, but it can be found in no few mainstream works (as can the male counterpart Marty Stu or Gary Stu). To what extent does Jack fall under the rubric of a Mary Sue? What in the text shows as much, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Assuming that Zero Days should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?
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