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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 does Alekhin think Mack plans to kill?

2. Where does Alekhin decide to track Mack down from?

3. How does Alekhin know Mac killed the man?

4. Who does Zhikarev stop for on the way to the Chinese border?

5. Why is Mack unable to hunt as often as he would like in Chapter 36?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems is Alekhin having with Zamatev in this section?

2. Why does Kyra think Ostap is a good choice in assisting with the tracking?

3. Why does Yakov worry about Natayla?

4. How does Mack lead one of Alekhin's men onto the ice?

5. How does Peshkov die?

6. Why does Baronas want to leave?

7. How does Zhikarev change his plans?

8. Why don't Natalya and Baronas trust Bocharev?

9. How does Mack stop the soldiers after him in this section?

10. What mistake has Zamatev not only made, but also continues to make?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

The author writes The Last of the Breed in the third person. Why do you think the author chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if the author wrote it in the first person?

Essay Topic 3

Examine Mack's Indian identity.

1. How does Mack's Indian heritage help him in the novel?

2. What does it suggest about America in the fifties that a Native American could be so loyal towards the USA.

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