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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this story say about the human spirit?

2. What year best describes when these events in this story could have occurred?

3. What does VIc think as he enters the town?

4. At the end of the book, where are Blood and Vic headed?

5. What did Blood find out while Vic was gone in the city?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author of this book examines some hard issues about human meaning and existence in his alternate future. Explain how this alternate future makes it easier to examine these issues. How does it make some issues harder to examine? Use three examples where the author needs an alternate future to make his point clearer.

Essay Topic 2

Explain how a "A Boy and His Dog" is a story about more than just a boy and a dog. Use specific examples from the story that show how Vic and Blood's relationship is different than a normal boy and his dog.

Essay Topic 3

If you could be any character in this book, which character would you be? How would you have acted similarly to the book character and what would you have done differently? Why?

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