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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 are Helen and Adrian Hoover surprised by when the moving truck arrives?

2. What did Jacques Plessis want from the Hoovers?

3. What did Adrian say he would use as a freezer?

4. Helen's boss send her to speak to ______________.

5. What was Helen doing when she heard the animal?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Helen inspired by Jacques Plessis?

2. What happened to the airtight stove?

3. What opportunity did the Hoovers see in the basement?

4. Describe the mice the Hoovers found.

5. What had John Anderson done while the Hoovers were in Chicago?

6. Describe how Helen and Adrian Hoover got the oil drum to the house.

7. What did the sheriff decide about the car accident?

8. What happened to the lawsuit from George Wilson?

9. What happened to the cabin during the rainstorm?

10. How did the Hoovers practically asphyxiate themselves?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define the government's role in 'A Place in the Woods.' How did the Unites States government figure into Helen and Adrian Hoover's lives while they were in the woods?

Essay Topic 2

What were the political and cultural contexts for the Hoovers' flight to the woods? What was going on when they were taking off? How were other people expressing the desire to live in a different society?

Essay Topic 3

What was the Hoovers' relation with the local people? Were they like settlers, taking land from the locals? Or were they refugees displaced from the city to the country? Were they returning home in some way?

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