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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 does the Sheep Professor tell Main Character and the Girlfriend that the sheep plans to do?

2. What do the Main Character and the Girlfriend discuss after arriving at the station in Chapter 24?

3. Who does the caretaker say is living in the home on the sheep ranch that the Main Character visits in Chapter 30?

4. What does the Main Character discover when he wakes up in Chapter 33?

5. Whom does the Main Character get to agree to pickup himself and the Girlfriend at 8:00 the next morning in Chapter 31?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is responsible for the Strange Man's death?

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

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

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

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

6. How is isolation and alienation of the characters apparent in Chapters 25 and 26?

7. What factors contribute to the eerie feeling of the area near the villa in Junitaki?

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

9. Is the Cat or the Main Character more at home in the world? Please fully support your answer.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What events in A Wild Sheep Chase are most important in changing the Main Character's perception of the importance of friendship and relationships? Refer to specific incidences and outcomes to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

The mystical quality of the novel is enhanced by the power of certain characters that drive the plot in specific directions.

1) Is the Main Character helped on his journey in A Wild Sheep Chase by divine guidance or is he merely a pawn of the Strange Man?

2) How would the story be different without the girlfriend?

Essay Topic 3

The surreal quality of A Wild Sheep Chase is at times enhanced and at times contradicted by the use of setting in the novel. Select two settings that play an important role to the creation of the surreal feeling of the story. Compare and contrast them.

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