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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 is identified as the typifying feature of Jack’s target location in Sunsmile?

2. What does Jack eat in the field after fleeing Sunsmile?

3. At what station does Jack consider departing the train on which she flees Sunsmile?

4. Of which of the following dark marketplaces is Jack aware?

5. Which of the following does Jack order after her cryptocurrency exchange?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does the driver who takes Jack back to London ask about her partner?

5. Why does Jack posit her last bandage fits poorly?

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

7. Why does Jack reject Cole’s assertion that framing her for Gabe’s murder was for her protection?

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

9. What piece of information in Sunsmile sticks out when Jack reviews their policy on Gabe?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many chapters open with Jack waking in more or less unfamiliar surroundings. How does the pattern impact the narrative?

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

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Zero Days? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

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