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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. Who is Sir Percy?

2. What does Randy decide to tell Alice and Florence?

3. What does Mark do when he arrives at McCoy?

4. Where do Syrian tanks go near the beginning of the book?

5. Where is Lavinia when Randy arrives at the McGoverns' house after the Day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Mark's flight arrives at McCoy?

2. What do Helen and the children want to do when outside and what happens to them?

3. Where did Randy go after he left the bank and what did he do?

4. What does "the Day" designate and how important is it to the people of Ft. Repose?

5. Who is Florence Wechek and what is discovered about her at the beginning of the book?

6. What does Randy drink in the morning and what does his friend, Dan, say about it?

7. What does Helen ask Admiral Hazzard and why?

8. What does Randy do when he first arrives at McCoy and what does he see?

9. Where does Randy go after he leaves the grocery store and what does he do?

10. What does James Cobb do when ordered to go after a bogy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 1 it may seem that Randy is a developing alcoholic but he says as long as he just enjoys but doesn't crave, he's okay.

1. Do you think people can't be alcoholics if they don't think they are? Why or why not?

2. What do you think are the symptoms of alcoholism?

3. Do you think if someone has a drink in the morning that makes him/her an alcoholic? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Crises expose the nature of characters in Fort Repose. Randy and his neighbors on River Road struggle to survive by helping each other make the best of what they have.

1. Why do you think a crisis shows who people really are? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. If you were in a crisis as severe as the one in this book, who in your life would be the best person to have with you? Why?

3. How do you think your behavior would change if something like the crisis in this book occurred?

Essay Topic 3

Randy's final humiliation of Edgar by trading paper for cash to buy goods symbolizes the fate he boasts won't happen with him in charge.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Why do you think Edgar is unwilling to see what might be the reality of the situation with his bank?

3. Describe one other use of symbolism you've seen in the book so far.

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