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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 is the name of Peter Andersson's wife?

2. Who is the owner of the Bearskin?

3. What does Maya do in bed in the morning of Chapter 2?

4. What is Benji's last name?

5. What fear does Bobo reveal in Chapter 21?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the circumstances surrounding Sune in the beginning of the novel?

2. What does Amat discover when he opens Kevin's bedroom door at the party in Chapter 22?

3. Who is Robbie Holts and what is revealed about his backstory?

4. What led Peter to return to Beartown and head the hockey team there?

5. Who is Ramona and what is her relationship to the Pack?

6. How is Ana treated by the older girls at the party? How does she respond?

7. Who is Maggan Lyt and how is she presented in the novel?

8. From what narrative perspective is the novel related? How does this impact the story?

9. Who is Adri? What is her profession? How is she connected to the main characters of the story?

10. What sound is indicated in italics in Chapter 2? What does this foreshadow?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the plot structure of Beartown. Where in the novel does the exposition transition to rising action? What is the inciting event that propels the plot forward? Where does the climax occur? What information is revealed in the falling action and denouement?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of alienation in Beartown. What characters in the story are outcasts and what makes them so? How are all of the inhabitants of Beartown alienated in some way from their surroundings? What symbolism connects to this theme?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss and analyze the character of Benji Ovich in Beartown. How old is Benji? What aspects of Benji's character set him apart from the other players on the hockey team? Do you think that Benji is an admirable character? Why or why not?

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