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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. Who figures out that Mack is behind the helicopter crash?

2. What does the soldier count up to before he is allowed to go?

3. What noise alerts Joe to the rail work?

4. Where is Kyra sent?

5. How does Mack make sure he can leave the village quickly if needed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Mack worried about Alekhin?

2. Describe the cells the guards take Mack back to?

3. What does Mack remember about the Siberian terrain?

4. How does Mack convince the man to let him go?

5. Why is Mack not worried about Peshkov in this section?

6. Why does Kyra want to change the guards at the Chinese border?

7. Why does Mack decide to leave the village?

8. Why does the colonel think Mack would be interested in meeting Alekhin?

9. What is Zamatev's relationship with Kyra?

10. Why doesn't Mack want to get close to Natayla?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Mack's character to the person he is at the beginning of the book to the he is at the end.

1. What did Mack hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes Mack's ideas about life?

3. How has Mack's character changed by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the book's chronological setting.

1. What were the main concerns during the 1950s? How does the author express these concerns?

2. How would the author change the book if it was set in today's society?

Essay Topic 3

Examine violence in the book.

1. How do the characters in the book view violence?

2. Do the characters need to be violent to cope in the world that the author portrays?

3. How did the public react to the book's violence when it was first published? How would the public react to a similar book today?

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