A Place in the Woods Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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A Place in the Woods Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 did John Anderson assure Helen and Adrian Hoover he would do?

2. How long did Helen and Adrian Hoover take to decide to buy the cabin?

3. What had John Anderson done to the basement when Helen and Adrian Hoover were gone?

4. What was Adrian's diagnosis?

5. What state was the other driver in after the accident?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the sheriff decide about the car accident?

2. Who are the Larimers, and what did the Hoovers have to do with them?

3. What was Helen's experience with the squirrels?

4. Who was Jacques Plessis, and what did the Hoovers do for him?

5. What events surrounded the Hoovers' decision to stay in the cabin?

6. What happened to Helen in the car accident?

7. What were the Hoovers' positions before the moved to the cabin?

8. What did Hilda and Sven say when they left for the season?

9. Describe how Helen and Adrian Hoover got the oil drum to the house.

10. What animal visitor did Helen and Adrian Hoover have in the basement?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How would you do things differently than the Hoovers, if you were to go into the woods? Why would you go to the woods? What would be hardest to live without? Compare and contrast your own experience in the woods, as you imagine it.

Essay Topic 2

What were the political and cultural contexts for the Hoovers' flight to the woods? What was going on when they were taking off? How were other people expressing the desire to live in a different society?

Essay Topic 3

To what degree is this book internally consistent? How much does it follow the rules it lays out? Where does it break from its own logic or skip over things that you would think should be covered?

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