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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 element of weather leads to the men's predicament of being stranded?
2. In Chapter 7, Håkan and the rest of the convoy begin to cross what type of natural feature?
3. In what chapter do Lorimer and Håkan part from one another?
4. For what object does Håkan look around the plains when he hears that Lorimer is parting ways with him?
5. What particular medical skill does Lorimer teach to Håkan at the site of the massacre?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Håkan's family situation, as it is depicted once the body of the narrative begins.
2. In what location does the prologue of the novel take place?
3. Describe Håkan's experiences in Clangston.
4. How does Håkan end up on a ship ultimately bound for California, when he had been headed for New York City?
5. Describe a time in the narrative when a metaphor is used to indicate a particular mood.
6. How does Håkan feel about his older brother Linus?
7. Who is Lorimer and what are three of his characteristics?
8. What similarity between Native American and Swedish culture does Håkan identify?
9. Describe the distinctive opening of Chapter 6 and its use of sensory details.
10. How does the parting of Håkan and Lorimer come about?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sensory details are used frequently by Diaz in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of In the Distance. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Diaz’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
Essay Topic 2
Explicate the theme of hope within In the Distance. What is Diaz’s message regarding hope and how do you know?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Diaz's choice to tell the novel of In the Distance using a third person omniscient narrator. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Diaz’s intended effects on the reader?
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