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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 does the Kitt's model wear for Ed's photo shoot?

2. While in Oree, what animal(s) does Ed wonder about getting a chance to hunt?

3. What had Ed found attractive about his wife when they first met?

4. For what disaster have Lewis and his wife prepared?

5. While driving to Oree, what does Ed tell Lewis about himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the luncheon, why does Ed think Bobby and Drew won't take the canoe trip?

2. Years after the trip, why do Ed and Lewis remain friends even though the experience has affected them in different ways?

3. After shooting their attacker, why does Ed track him even though he himself has been wounded?

4. Why does Drew want to bring his guitar on the canoe trip?

5. At the luncheon, of what does Lewis' mention of his bow make Bobby think?

6. How does Ed feel upon learning that Drew was shot?

7. Describe the mood that comes over Ed when he returns to his office and is alone with his thoughts.

8. After the rape and the disposal of the body, how does Ed feel when he hears the worst whitewater of the trip ahead of them?

9. Why does Lewis say the Griner brothers won't just take the money and not deliver the cars to Aintry?

10. In the After section, why does Ed go to Bobby's room at Biddiford's?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This is the story of Ed's transformation from a man drifting through life into a man of action. Write about one of the following:

1) Trace how the author accomplished that transformation through the events that happened to him, telling how his decisions at these moments contribute to his transformation and to his actions afterward. If he had made other decisions, how would those differences affect the structure of the novel?

2) The title of the novel tells its theme, which is followed through several strands of the story. Give at least two ways the title describes what happened to characters in the novel and explain your reasoning.

Essay Topic 2

Sports are associated with competition and are a way of improving one's self. Discuss the various sports Ed and Lewis trained for and had experience in before the novel begins and how those skills come in handy during the events of the trip. Discuss how things might have turned out if neither man possessed those particular skills. If they had no such skills, would the men have survived? If your answer is no, explain the difference their survival skills make. If your answer is "y es," explain how they might have survived.

Essay Topic 3

Good stories follow a predictable path from beginning to end. Divide Deliverance into sections. Describe each section, and tell how each contributes to the telling of the story and to the suspense. Describe the climax. Describe the last section, and tell how you think it succeeds in wrapping up all loose ends.

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