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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. Who returned to the area as the weather warmed?

2. How would you describe the quantity of Christmas cards the Hoovers received?

3. What arrived with Helen's pension check?

4. What surprise did Helen get when she looked at her finances?

5. What did Helen do in spite of being alarmed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Adrian get ice from the lake?

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

3. How did Helen and Adrian put out the fire in the workshop?

4. How did the warmer temperatures change Helen and Adrian Hoover's routines?

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

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

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

8. What did the Hoovers do when they got their mimeograph?

9. What animals did the Hoovers see near their cabin?

10. What did the fire in the workshop start from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assess the value of the statement that Helen and Adrian Hoover were running away from civilization, not running toward nature. What parts of civilization were they trying to get away from? What parts of nature drew them positively?

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

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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