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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 is the name of Hank's wife?

2. How were Hank's parents killed?

3. How much debt does Lou tell Hank he has in Chapter Six?

4. Where do Hank, Lou, and Jacob go after leaving the bar in Chapter Six?

5. What bar do Hank, Lou, and Jacob go to in Chapter Six?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Hank and Jacob effectively set Lou up in Chapter Six?

2. Where do Lou, Hank, and Jacob go in Chapter Six? What does Lou reveal about his debts?

3. Why do Hank, Lou, and Jacob enter Anders Nature Preserve in Chapter One?

4. What conversation do Jacob and Hank have about their parents in Chapter Five?

5. Who attempts to stop the violent argument in Chapter Six? What happens?

6. What does Jacob ask Hank and Carl when he emerges from the truck in Chapter One?

7. What recollection of his parents does Hank have in the beginning of Chapter Three?

8. What does Hank discover about Penderson when he returns to the car in Chapter Three?

9. Whom does Hank find Jacob talking with when he returns to the car in Chapter Three?

10. When does Sarah return home from the hospital in Chapter Five? What does Jacob bring?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the element of symbolism in literature. What symbolic elements have been illustrated in A Simple Plan? What does the farm symbolize?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of family in the novel. How does Jacob's bear represent family symbolically in Chapter Five?

Essay Topic 3

Describe examples of foreshadowing from the text. How does Hank's discovery of the machete and farming manual represent foreshadowing?

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