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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. Tristan smuggles whiskey through the wilderness and makes a __________ profit.

2. Sarah arrives, wanting to talk where?

3. When Alfred cannot reason with Tristan, where does the army send Tristan?

4. Alfred returns home to Washington DC, where Susannah is suffering from what?

5. Tristan goes to deliver some whiskey for a party at Alfred's house, hoping to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nordstrom do with his money?

2. How does Tristan escape the hospital? What does he do after his escape?

3. What does Tristan do during the six years he spends at sea?

4. How does Isabel Two die?

5. What does does Nordstrom do on his way to his appointment with the psychiatrist?

6. What does Phillip discuss philosophically that seems to upset Nordstrom?

7. How does Ludlow feel after allowing the boys to go to war?

8. How does this story end?

9. Why is Susannah feeling better in the new house in Helena?

10. How does Tristan spend seven years with his new wife?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A theme of REVENGE is taking control of one's life.

Part 1) How is this a theme? Which characters attempt this? How?

Part 2) Are the characters successful at controlling their lives? Why or why not?

Part 3) How is this theme relevant to real life? How can the reader relate to the characters in this story?

Essay Topic 2

Nordstrom has feelings of death and loss.

Part 1) What causes these feelings? How do these feelings affect him?

Part 2) How do these feelings begin to change? What might be causing this change? How do you know this?

Part 3) How do these feelings lead him to dream of being a chef by the sea?

Essay Topic 3

Laura and Nordstrom's relationship is sexual.

Part 1) How does this affect their marriage? Why does it affect their marriage this way?

Part 2) How does this reflect Nordstrom's feelings about himself?

Part 3) How does their relationship affect their daughter? How does Nordstrom go about remedying his relationship with his daughter? What are your feelings about how he does this? Why?

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