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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 best describes the Sheep Professor?

2. What does the Main Character do just before leaving the villa for the last time?

3. What does the Territorial Government name the area where the Sheep Professor's homestead is located?

4. What does the person who speaks to the Main Character in the darkness in Chapter 38 tell him about the Rat?

5. What does the Main Character do on the seventh day of the trip to help locate the Rat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Was the Main Character a good choice for the Strange Man's sheep finding mission?

2. Do the Girlfriend's ears help the quest while staying at the Dolphin Hotel?

3. Why is the Rat able to destroy the Sheep?

4. Explain the caretaker's feelings about escorting the Main Character and the Girlfriend up that mountain.

5. How does the Sheep Professor's information help the Main Character on his quest?

6. Aside from her powerful ears, is the Girlfriend a help or a hindrance to the Main Character?

7. How are the sheep at the sheep farm similar to the people that the Sheep is trying to control?

8. Explain how the Sheep Professor came to his current state of being.

9. Why does the Main Character feel that he is being used as a pawn?

10. What is the importance of time to the characters in Chapter 24?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Symbolism in A Wild Sheep Chase sends many messages involving themes like alienation, authority, and transformation. Select three items of symbolism and for each:

1) Describe what theme or idea they symbolize.

2) Analyze the use of that object to send a message at that point in the novel.

3) Relate the object to the author's use of surrealism in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

A Wild Sheep Chase uses animal to make specific comments on humanity.

1) Define the author's apparent opinion on humans and animals.

2) Use the animals in the novel to explain the author's views on authority.

Essay Topic 3

Which chapter names are the best and the worst in A Wild Sheep Chase? Support your answer with a discussion of the effect of the title as it relates to themes and literary styles that may include foreshadowing, symbolism, character growth, plot development or anything else you find important to the story.

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