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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 long does Cody stay in prison?

2. What do Jack and his mother enjoy on the bus as they leave New Orleans?

3. Where does Jack's mother live?

4. What is most shocking to Angie about Mexicans?

5. Who does Jack plan to live with when he finally returns to America?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Jack living at the end of the book, and how does he feel about it?

2. What does Angie convince her son to give up in his life before heading back to Florida?

3. How does Irwin describe Hubbard?

4. What does Hubbard express a need to purge himself of, and why?

5. What happens when Jack first meets Alyce?

6. What causes Jack's disgust for the civilized world to increase while he is on the ship heading to Africa?

7. What is Jack and Angie's new apartment like?

8. Who is Jack forced to sit with in the dining room on his journey back to New York and why?

9. Why is Jack so disappointed when he arrives in San Francisco with his mother?

10. How does Hubbard survive in Tangiers with no real work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The characters in this book all have their own goals and motivations. Select four characters and write their main motivation throughout the book and how this goal affected the other characters around them.

Essay Topic 2

Jack enters into relationships with several different women in this book. Write a compare and contrast essay about these different relationships.

Essay Topic 3

How does Jack change through the course of the book? What causes these changes?

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