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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 soldier count up to before he is allowed to go?

2. What is the quickest way out of Siberia?

3. Why does Natalya make Mack a shirt?

4. What does Mack use to kill the helicopter pilot?

5. Why does the settlement need Peshkov?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Zamatev's relationship with Kyra?

2. How does Mack prepare to leave the village?

3. Why does Mack want to find his own place to stay?

4. How does Mack convince the man to let him go?

5. How did Mack know what to do with the locks the minute he saw them?

6. Why does Natayla want to make Mack a shirt?

7. What information does Pennington give Zamatev about Mack?

8. What does Mack see when he steps into the sunlight?

9. Why is Mack worried about Alekhin?

10. Why doesn't Mack want to get close to Natayla?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the author represent the relationship between Russia and America? What does this representation say about 1950s society at the time?

Essay Topic 2

How are the following people helpful in helping Mack survive?

1. Natalya.

2. Yakov.

3. Pennington.

Essay Topic 3

Examine Mack's Indian identity.

1. How does Mack's Indian heritage help him in the novel?

2. What does it suggest about America in the fifties that a Native American could be so loyal towards the USA.

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