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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. How is the first man that the four men encounter in Oree described?
2. What enables Lewis to live life on his terms?
3. Why does Lewis tell Ed the story of his lost friend before taking the canoe trip?
4. In what season do the men take their canoe trip?
5. While driving to Oree, what does Lewis tell Ed?
Short Essay Questions
1. When the group stops for a swim, why doesn't Bobby join them in the water?
2. Why did Ed let his employee, George Holley, go?
3. Why does Ed tell Drew's wife of her loss before getting a good rest at home?
4. From where does Bobby Trippe come?
5. From where does Ed think the model in the photo shoot is?
6. What does a local man in Oree suggest to Drew that he do?
7. Why does Drew want to bring his guitar on the canoe trip?
8. When no body has been found after he first day of dragging the river, why doesn't Ed return the next day when the search for the body will continue?
9. How does Ed feel upon learning that Drew was shot?
10. Why might Drew and the albino boy, Lonnie, become friends after the trip?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The four men who embark on the canoe trip are representative of typical suburban men of the seventies. Write a few paragraphs about the following:
1) Describe a typical suburban man of the seventies.
2) Compare and contrast that man with a typical suburban man of today. Explain the differences and similarities.
3) The story is set in the South. Would the men have differed from men from similar suburbs in the North? If so, describe what those differences would be.
Essay Topic 2
When the men find Drew's body, they realize he may not have been killed by a gunshot after all. How does this discovery add to the plot twists and turns of the story? How does the uncertainty about the cause of Drew's death change the men's future actions? Explain how events following Drew's death are affected by the men's original belief that he was shot to death, then by the uncertainty about the cause of death. What did the author hope to accomplish with this plot twist?
Essay Topic 3
What would you have done if you had taken a whitewater canoe trip similar to the one described in the story? Would you have acted as Lewis and Ed did if you were attacked in a similar manner, or would you have made a choice similar to the one Drew made? Why would you have decided the way you did? What factors would you have considered when making your decision? What do you think would have happened as a result of that decision?
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