Testing by Charles Oberndorf
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Overview: Would the world be a better place if everyone took a standard morality test before being offered a chance for success in life? In Oberndorf’s slim but thoroughly probing second novel, this question–and its thorny contemplation–are explored through the eyes of Karl, a twenty-first-century adolescent on the brink of high school graduation. As a prerequisite to acceptance by a university and securing a job in economically precarious times, Karl must face three simulated moral dilemmas while strapped in a "dreamchair" and be grilled on his morally revealing decisions. Yet before the fateful day arrives, Karl finds himself already mired in ethical considerations: his girlfriend may be pregnant and his recent visit to a local bordello may jeopardize his test results even though, as only Karl himself knows, nothing happened. Writing in a deceptively simple style, Oberndorf perfectly scales his philosophical speculations to the workings of the adolescent mind and with penetrating insight quietly shatters another utopian ideal–the notion that morality can ever be taught.
Genre: Science Fiction
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