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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 chose the chicken noodles?

2. What is the most widely understood word in the world?

3. What were the names of the people that Richard met?

4. Why did Mr. Duck attempt to get his wounds closed up?

5. What is the guy's record with Tetris?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why couldn't tourists visit the national parks?

2. What game did the three people play as they swum out to sea? How did Richard feel about the game?

3. What was the purpose of the lashed together branches?

4. What had made Jed's day bad?

5. What did all the people that were taken to the beach have in common? Who was the odd person out?

6. Why did Richard's reflection come as quite a shock?

7. Why did Richard consider himself pretty lucky?

8. How did Richard feel about his parting from the two Americans the last time?

9. Why did it surprise Richard that he had volunteered to go for the Rice Run?

10. What explanation did Richard offer for the shape of the island on which the Beach was located?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Daffy's comment about 'living with Cancer". What do you think that comment was directed at, and why? What would Daffy consider to be cancer? How was he released from living with Cancer? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Attempt to explain the camps swarming and subsequent mutilation of the bodies of the rafters. Try and provide some explanations for this bizarre and frightening behavior. How does this mark the complete and utter dissolution of the camps' social structure?

Essay Topic 3

Explain how the beach community must remain a secret and for what reasons everyone diligently keeps that secret. What does the beach have the potential to become if it becomes exposed? How is this an undesirable outcome? Are the methods employed at keeping the secret of the beach a bit heinous in their extremity? Explain.

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