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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. To whom does Jack feign talking as she escapes Sunsmile?

2. Which of the following does Jack order when she comes out of the field, bound for her meeting with Leadbetter?

3. Who is the front desk security guard at Sunsmile when Jack arrives?

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

5. From which Sunsmile employee does Jack take a security pass image?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Jack get yelled at on the train in which she flees from Sunsmile?

3. Why does Bill Watts note he will not turn Jack in?

4. Why does Jack answer Gabe’s phone in the service station?

5. Why does Jack brave the service station after securing access to Gabe’s phone?

6. Why had Gabe monitored dark marketplaces?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

There is not one “English,” with the different parts of the English-speaking world each having their own sets of “rules” and common practices. Consider the features of the novel’s usage that deviate from your own patterns of use. What among them attracts the most attention for you? Why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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