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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 does Ostap convince the men to help him find Mack?

2. What does Mack decides he needs to stay to survive?

3. Who does Natalya meet in the city?

4. Who will Natalya talk to about Mack when she arrives in America?

5. What does the official offer to do for Natalya and her father?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mack escape the soldiers at the end of the chapter?

2. What does Alekhin learn about Mack's habits?

3. What problems is Mack having in this chapter?

4. Why do Natayla and her father think they are in danger at the end of this section?

5. What problem does Zamatev have with Kyra?

6. Describe Natayla's trip through the taiga in this section?

7. Why does Baronas want to leave?

8. Why does Mack think the boulder trap that breaks the man's leg is better than the others?

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

10. Why is Mack worried about the soldiers in this section?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Stephen's death affect the lives of the characters? How would the story have been different if Stephen had lived?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the book and helps to express character and theme.

1. Setting

2. Point of view

3. Structure

4. Language

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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