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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 Chicken John's claim to fame?
2. What has devastated a mountain of foliage in Palmerton?
3. What was the name of the greatest hotel in the White Mountains?
4. What is the estimate of people who hike the Appalachian Trail every year?
5. What is the name of the mountain Bryson is hiking when it begins to rain?
Short Essay Questions
1. Summarize the statistics Laurie Potteiger, the Information Specialist at Harper's Ferry, gives to Bryson about the number of thru hikers who hiked the Appalachian Trail the year before.
2. Explain why Katz starts drinking again.
3. Summarize Bryson's experience hiking in Pennsylvania.
4. Describe what Bryson finds strange about the town of Centralia.
5. Describe the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
6. Describe Chicken John's claim to fame.
7. Describe what is killing the hemlock trees along the AT in the Blue Ridge Mountains and how is it being treated.
8. What is the decision that Bryson and Katz make after Katz gets lost in the woods.
9. Summarize what Katz does to pass the time while Bryson is at Kmart.
10. How do Bryson and Katz adapt to hiking through Maine's wilderness?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The wilderness is the main constant throughout the novel. It is depicted in all the chapters of the book.
1) Explain the different images Bryson uses of the wilderness as the book progresses.
2) What is the significance of the wilderness in each part of the book?
3) What meaning does the wilderness have for Bryson and Katz?
Essay Topic 2
1) Examine how Bill Bryson uses humor throughout the book, even in dangerous circumstances.
2) Analyze and describe at least three instances of humor depicted in the story.
3) Explain why Bryson writes the situation with comical imagery and what is revealed to the reader through humor.
Essay Topic 3
1) Interpret the feelings Bryson and Katz have for the trail in the first part of the novel with the emotions and reaction they have later in the novel.
2) What regrets do they have at the end of the novel with regard to their journey?
3) How does their relationship differ from the first part of the novel?
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