View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time should Artikin's action happen?

2. In the Seventies, what was a common occurrence in America?

3. Why does Kate feel angry that she is on the bus?

4. Who has Ben's father been speaking with?

5. By talking to Miro, what does Kate realize?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kate get nervous about having the responsibility of saving the children that are on the bus?

2. What was the General in charge of while he worked at Forte Delta?

3. As Part 3 begins, what is Ben hoping happens?

4. What does Kate hope for when she hears the helicopters overhead?

5. What do the terrorists do with the child who has died?

6. What do the events of the novel show to the reader?

7. Why did the author choose to pick the 1970s for the setting of the novel?

8. How do the terrorists get all the children to fall asleep?

9. When Ben's father arrives at Ben's dorm, what do the two men do?

10. When was the first time that Ben had learned about Inner Delta?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What American rites of passage are present or mentioned in this novel?

What characters are forced to go through these?

How might these rites of passage differ from ones that Miro was forced to live through.

Essay Topic 2

Two thirds of the way through the novel, the author begins to focus on two relationships. When it is revealed that Artkin in Miro's father, the author shifts the reader's attention to their apparent father/son relationship. Compare this relationship to Ben and the General.

Essay Topic 3

How has the General's actions caused Ben to commit suicide?

How could the General have prevented the death of his son?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 591 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample