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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. Where did Gabe and Jack get married?

2. In what area does Cole live?

3. What make of car does Cole drive?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jack note trusting Hel’s opinion even above Gabe’s?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How had Jack and Hel arranged to handle the meeting with Leadbetter?

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

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

10. What stymies Jack in her escape from Sunsmile?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Ware’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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

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?

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