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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. Who does Trisha imagine is in the woods protecting her?
2. What word does Trisha say over and over as she traverses the bog?
3. What color is Trisha's poncho?
4. Which team beats the Red Sox, causing an ill Trisha to cry herself to sleep?
5. How long have Trisha's parents been divorced?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Larry describe his ex-wife?
2. What does Quilla tell Trisha about avoiding mosquitoes?
3. Why does Trisha think there is no chance of her getting lost?
4. Why does Trisha become optimistic about the day that she and her family go on a hike?
5. Describe Trisha's vision of herself dying.
6. Why does Trisha not eat a large clump of fiddleheads that she sees?
7. What does Trisha imagine to make herself feel better after she realizes she does not know much about the wilderness?
8. Why does Trisha refuse to drink from the stream at first?
9. Describe the daydream Trisha has about Tom Gordon at the end of Chapter 1.
10. Why do the police begin to look for a man named Mazzerole?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast Trisha and Pete in the novel. How are they alike, and how are they different? How does each one relate to their parents? How would the novel be different without Pete?
Essay Topic 2
The phrase "the world has teeth" shows up several times in the novel. What do you think it means for Trisha? Why is it important that she learns this lesson at such a young age? Do you think she will be better off learning this lesson at a young age?
Essay Topic 3
Explore King's use of baseball as a metaphor for Trisha's journey. Choose three examples of how he forms this metaphor and describe them. Why do you think he structures his novel this way? What purpose does the metaphor serve?
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