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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. How many children did Joan and her husband have?
2. In Chapter 4, Riptide, what did Joan get up each morning to watch?
3. What news did Joan get about her house in the city after her return from the seal island?
4. How did the seals respond when Joan dove into the ocean?
5. In Chapter 4, Riptide, with what did Joan think she needed to fall in love?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 6, Waves of Truth, how did Joan feel about her sons' plans to spend Christmas with their wives' families instead of with Joan and her husband?
2. What was Joan's day with the seals like?
3. How did Joshua Cahoon differ from Joan's husband?
4. What incident told Joan that the other workers at the fish market had accepted her?
5. What reflections did the seals give Joan on her body image?
6. Why did Joan and her husband decide to separate?
7. In Chapter 4, Riptide, how did Joan relate the state of her marriage to a riptide?
8. What is ebb tide and how did Joan relate the concept of ebb tide to her own life?
9. How did Joan's husband respond to her day with the seals and what does his response indicate about their marriage?
10. How did other people respond when they learned Joan was working at a fish market?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the importance of the seal island to Joan. What lessons did she learn from the island and the seals that inhabit it? Why did her husband not understand the importance of the island to her? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 2
At the end of the book, Joan and her husband reunited. Discuss whether you found this ending satisfying or not and why. Did it negate Joan's feminist precepts for her to take her husband back? Was it believable that Joan would reunite with her husband after her unhappiness during her marriage? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Joan's reliability as a narrator. How reliable is she? In what ways might she be biased? Do you think her perceptions of her experiences are accurate? Why or why not? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
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