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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. Which of the following animals attack the corpses of the woman and children?

2. What does the mirror represent?

3. What word is often used to denote a sign of good health?

4. The baby is born ____.

5. Which is not one of the animals Russel expects to find in the hills?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Russel find in the shelter?

2. Russel finds a person lying in the snow. The person is unconscious. Who is the person and what has happened?

3. What is the animal encountered by Russel's dream-self? What happens when the man attacks the mammoth?

4. Explain the man's dance during the celebration in the village.

5. What does Russel do when a violent storm sets in?

6. What is the man's state of mind at this point? What does the man do next?

7. What is the purpose of the scene with the woolly mammoth? What does it represent?

8. Who is the man in the shelter? What does the man do when he leaves the shelter?

9. Russel realizes something about the man - his future dream-self - and how he gets his strength. What does Russel realize?

10. Russel's dream continues. What is the next thing he sees?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foreshadowing is used in several places throughout the story. Give at least three examples of foreshadowing. Explain each in depth including the purpose and information gained from the use of the technique.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Russel's father and Oogruk. Which teaches Russel the most? Who is the most influential? How does Russel feel about each?

Essay Topic 3

Russel's dream about the woolly mammoth was insightful and prophetic, but only after Russel figured out what they were trying to say. Why do you think that the dream was cryptic? Do you think the dream was cryptic? Why didn't Russel's dream-self recognize the younger Russel?

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