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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 Luca say the teenagers need to do for the parents?

2. Where does Burl decide to take the teenagers when they cannot find a passable road to Juicy's house?

3. Why do Burl and Val go to the top of the hill in Chapter 5?

4. What do the soldiers start doing to the angels when they can not find the rest of the goats?

5. Which goat gets shot first?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is extraordinary about Red in the end of Chapter 8?

2. What saves the crew at the farm from the soldiers?

3. What is one reason the crew at the farm gives up keeping watch?

4. What is the journey from the great house to the farm like in Chapter 5?

5. What do the soldiers start doing to the angels when they can not find the other goats to kill?

6. What is one reason Evie and the teenagers like the trail angels?

7. What happens to Red when he takes Evie at gunpoint out in the woods?

8. What shocks the teenagers about Sukey's mother when she appears at the farm to collect Sukey?

9. Why do Sukey and her mother come back to the farm in Chapter 6?

10. How does Mattie convince Jack and Shel to let their trapped animals free?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Evie feel, at first, about Jack's and Shel's forgiveness of Red? What does the boys' treatment of Red seem to represent for Evie and for the rest of the teenagers? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How much do Evie and the rest of the teenagers really seem to understand about the scope of the storm and its aftermath? When in the novel does Evie seem to begin to grasp the magnitude of the death toll and the ensuing crisis resulting from the storm? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why does David decide to sabotage the yacht's navigational device, and what plot development makes this news much more serious? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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