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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 Ben ask Randy?

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

3. What does Randy remember when he wakes in Chapter Four?

4. What does Washington D.C. say about the explosion in the Middle East?

5. What does Randy tell Helen and the children when they join him outside?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Florence tell Alice about Randy?

2. What happens in the "Hole" when General Hawker returns and talks with Mark?

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

4. Who are the Bragg brothers and what are they both doing at the beginning of the book?

5. What does Mark do after his family leaves for Orlando before he reports to work?

6. Where does Randy find Dan and what happens?

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

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

9. Why is Alice late meeting Florence and what ultimately happened?

10. Who's the second person to stop in at Randy's house after he returned from town?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

A civilization takes many things for granted but realizes their value only in their absence.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement from the perspective of the book?

2. What do you think people in present day America take for granted?

3. Describe a time that you or someone you knew lost something or someone that/who was taken for granted.

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