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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. The only food that Michael K had to eat was ______ and grubs when he was staying in the cave.

2. Captain Noel explained that Michael K was accused of being _____________.

3. The hunger pangs that Michael K was feeling finally went away and K was able to empty his _________.

4. When Noel asked Michael K about the ________, Michael K said that it belonged to no one else but the earth.

5. There were more attacks on ____________ and the police chief asked for Michael K to be interrogated.

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the doctor think K's mother's influence was on K's current habit of not eating any food?

2. What enraged the doctor during the interrogation of Michael after there were more attacks on Prince Albert?

3. Where was K admitted for medical assistance during the first part of this chapter?

4. What did the doctor think K's biggest mistake was in his life?

5. What is the doctor's explanation of K's refusal to eat camp food during his stay at the camp?

6. How did anyone know that the camp where Michael was at was once a racetrack?

7. What are some of the things which are added to the refugee camps in order to make them internment camps?

8. Why did the doctor want the captain to discharge Michael out of the camp?

9. What was the doctor's reasoning behind feeling that K was innocent of the charges?

10. What do Captain Noel and the doctor decide to do with K after they realize he did not do anything?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the end, K had no shame in being simple and being a drifter in life.

Part 1: Do you think K was truly happy with the way his life turned out? Why or why not?

Part 2: Do you believe that K died at the end of the book? Why or why not?

Part 3: Do you think that perhaps death is the truest form of freedom? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

K began to live a life in which he could make all of the decisions whether to eat or to sleep, work or not work.

Part 1: Do you think K found the absolute freedom he longed for? Why or why not?

Part 2: Do you think you would enjoy the type of life K begins to lead? Why or why not?

Part 3: How do you define total freedom? Why?

Essay Topic 3

The trip that Anna and Michael make exhausts both of them.

Part 1: Do you think Anna and Michael should have attempted the trip at all? Why or why not?

Part 2: Do you think Anna would have died had she stayed where she was before the trip? Why or why not?

Part 3: Do you think Michael should have pushed Anna to travel in the way she did? Why or why not?

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