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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 did Helen get more in tune with as she lost track of the months?

2. Where did Helen and Adrian Hoover consider buying food?

3. What did Adrian unleash when he was working on the roof?

4. What animal let itself into the cabin and hissed at Helen?

5. How did Helen and Adrian Hoover work together to fight the fire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when the chicks outgrew their tub?

2. What was the old life the Hoovers left behind?

3. Describe the chimney fire.

4. Describe the scene Helen and Adrian Hoover witnessed with the ermine and the jays.

5. How did Adrian get ice from the lake?

6. What was the Hoovers' first source of income from the cabin?

7. Why did the chickens end up in the cabin with Helen and Adrian?

8. What was the benefit of the structure Adrian built?

9. How did the Hoovers try to get animals close to the cabin?

10. Who was Walter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Define the importance of writing to the Hoovers. Was Helen a writer when she went into the woods? Did being in the woods make her a writer? Did she go to the woods to become a writer, or was she finally able to write out the things that had always been inside her?

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