The Great Alone Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What does Leni’s suggestion that they burn down the Allbright cabin symbolize? (from Chapters 30-31)

Memory.

Rebirth.

Forgiveness.

Redemption.

2.

What does the ham radio system represent to the people of Kaneq? (from Chapters 10-11)

Community.

Friendship.

Trust.

Safety.

3.

Leni decides at the end of Chapter 22 that she is now willing to leave Cora behind. Why? (from Chapters 20-22)

She cares more about Matthew than about Cora.

She no longer believes Cora will come with her.

She never understood Ernt’s obsession with Cora before.

She does not love her parents anymore.

4.

What do Ernt's anti-government rants and Cora's philosophical experiments have in common? (from Chapters 1-2)

They cause both parents to neglect their daughter.

They are both the result of trauma.

They both represent a search for meaning and control.

They make both parents angry and disaffected.

5.

As the family drives north, the narrator (and Leni, thanks to free indirect discourse) describes a book as “propped up like a pup tent, yellowed pages splayed out” (21). Why is this description significant? (from Chapters 3-4)

All of Leni’s possessions are worn out, like the “yellowed pages” of the book.

The narrator’s language shows how Leni has begun to think in Alaska-related images.

Leni has neglected the book because she wants to be a part of her own story.

Leni has lost interest in reading, which had once been important to her.

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