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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 was Helen Hoover's job?

2. What happened to Adrian when he and Helen returned to Chicago?

3. What did Helen and Adrian Hoover use to cool down their stove when it was overheating?

4. How did Adrian expect to load the wood?

5. What was Helen doing when she had an accident in the cabin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Helen's experience with the squirrels?

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

3. What happened to the cabin during the rainstorm?

4. What happened to Adrian in the accident?

5. What animal visitor did Helen and Adrian Hoover have in the basement?

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 were the Hoovers' positions before the moved to the cabin?

9. What surprised Helen when she and Adrian went to town?

10. Describe the mice the Hoovers found.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assess the extent to which the Hoovers are American in their project. In what ways are they fulfilling an American promise? In what way might they be running from American promises?

Essay Topic 2

How would you do things differently than the Hoovers, if you were to go into the woods? Why would you go to the woods? What would be hardest to live without? Compare and contrast your own experience in the woods, as you imagine it.

Essay Topic 3

How did living in the woods change how the Hoovers thought about money? Did they find new ways to make it? To live without it? To supplement it?

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