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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 animal came to the food Helen and Adrian Hoover left out?

2. What was Helen responding to with what she created?

3. Whom did Helen discover was going out of business?

4. What did the Hoovers realize as a result of the fire?

5. In the winter, what did Adrian make some money doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Helen alarmed by after the workshop fire was put out?

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

3. How did Adrian get ice from the lake?

4. What did Adrian do while Helen was creating a mailing list based on responses to the advertisements?

5. How did Helen find she had oriented herself in time?

6. Who was Blondie?

7. What did the FBI want when they came to see the Hoovers?

8. What happened to the Hoovers' chickens?

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

10. What changes did Helen notice in animal behavior when spring came?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what degree is this book internally consistent? How much does it follow the rules it lays out? Where does it break from its own logic or skip over things that you would think should be covered?

Essay Topic 2

Read the first chapter of Thoreau's Walden. Compare and contrast the Hoovers' book with Walden. How are they similar? How are they different? Are the Hoovers undertaking the same project as Thoreau?

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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