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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. How old was the cabin boy who fell through one of the fore portholes?

2. How far were Amanda and Miss Logan from the peak when they encountered the first pocket of snow?

3. How old was James Bartley when he was swallowed by a whale?

4. Who wrote, "We must love one another or die"?

5. Where did Amanda and Miss Logan see a peasant woman placing a tooth in the crevice of a church door?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is different about the way the couple sleeps in "Parenthesis"?

2. What were the thoughts of the fifteen who remained on the raft when they saw a butterfly?

3. What does the eighteen-year-old expect when he takes a job as a prep-school master?

4. How were the survivors on the raft finally rescued?

5. What is the storyline based upon of the movie Charlie is acting in?

6. Why do Charlie and the crew have to hike into the jungle?

7. When a violent storm blew up while Jonah was traveling by ship, how did the mariners decide that Jonah was the cause of the storm?

8. How is the woman's sleep sometimes broken and how does this affect the man in "Parenthesis"?

9. What did Amanda say about the practice of placing teeth in a crevice of the door of a church?

10. How would science explain the halo of cloud that appears around Mount Ararat?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Chapter 8 is told through letters Charlie writes to his girlfriend. The objective of this lesson is to discuss Charlie's relationship with Pippa.

Essay Topic 2

In "The Survivor," someone is using fabulation. Using examples from the book, take a position and argue whether Katherine is using fabulation or the doctor is using fabulation.

Essay Topic 3

In "The Survivor" Katherine is caught between two realities. Using examples from the book, argue whether reality is the scenario where Katherine is traveling on a boat, finds an island, and Linda has kittens or that Katherine's reality is the world that she calls her "nightmares."

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