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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. In what parking lot does Bill drop Jack off?

2. Under what alias does Jack penetrate Sunsmile’s information technology?

3. In the novel, the phrase “blag it” most nearly means which of the following?

4. To what band’s music had Jack and Gabe danced at their wedding?

5. How does Jack claim to have injured her shoulder?

Short Essay Questions

1. What stymies Jack in her escape from Sunsmile?

2. What is the danger of misuse of the programs Cole’s company produces?

3. Why does Jack note feeling better as she approaches Sunsmile?

4. Why does Jack grow apprehensive amid her meeting with her cryptocurrency contact?

5. What reasons does Jack recognize for others to regard her as homeless?

6. How does Jack know the Sunsmile employee she impersonates has seniority?

7. Explain the trick Jack plays with the sling she carries.

8. Why does Jack have some trouble finding an image of a security pass?

9. For what reason does Jack think Cole had been told to frame her?

10. Why does Jack refuse to let Cole take her to a hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of Jack's traits the novel repeatedly emphasizes is her vegetarianism. What effect does the trait have on the character? What effect does it have on your reception of the character? How are those effects achieved?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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