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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. What project is Harvey beginning?

2. What happens to Norm?

3. What does Barry tell Delores?

4. What is Rick Delanty's claim to fame?

5. What is included in Loretta's survival kit?

Short Essay Questions

1. What demonstrates that the women are handling the situation quite well?

2. What demonstrates how those who survive are the ones who concentrate on their own survival?

3. Briefly describe Tim and Eileen's journey by car to the observatory.

4. What does it say about Tim and Eileen that they agree to take four of the children and about Larry who refuses to harm Tim and Eileen?

5. How is the comet likened to a hot fudge sundae and what is the consequence of that analogy?

6. How do the astronauts decide to land in California?

7. Who finds Harvey and what do they do?

8. Define the literary term "comic relief" and give an example of it from this section.

9. What does Harvey find when he finally makes it home?

10. What is Harvey's reaction to what he finds and do you understand his reaction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Gordie and the Boy Scouts rescue some girl scouts from bikers who are abusing the girls. The boys and girls then pair off and create a new community. Discuss the following:

Assuming these boys and girls range in ages from 13-16, do you think it is responsible of Gordie as an adult to allow and/or even encourage the arrangement between the girls and boys?

Are these young people old enough to make the decision to not return with Harvey? Explain.

If you were a girl that was rescued, would you be willing to participate in the pairing off and all that implies? Why or why not?

What do you think the group would do to any boy or girl or refuses to pair off? Explain.

Is it moral for an adult to pair off with a sixteen year old girl, especially considering he has a wife already?

Essay Topic 2

It seems that the people who will survive this comet strike are those who do not depend on military, police and rescue crews to save them; the hard truth is that those crews are going to be of little actual use. Discuss the following:

Analyze those who are surviving in the best way possible in the novel and relate how they are able to do so. How much do they depend upon "official" agencies for survival?

How often in real life do people depend upon their government at any level to "save" them? Is this a healthy attitude? Why or why not.

Do you think those in many countries, including the United States, have become too dependent on others to "save" them rather than their own self reliance?

Essay Topic 3

When Harvey comes home just after the comet begins striking the earth, he finds his wife and dog murdered and his house ransacked with the supplies he had carefully laid up for disaster stolen. He lies down and starts to go to sleep. Discuss the following:

Why do you think Harvey just lies down and goes to sleep?

What do you think would have happened had Joanne and Mark not arrived?

Why do you think some people react to survive in a crisis and others just give up and resign themselves to death?

In Hot Fudge Tuesdae: Three, Dan Forrester goes to great lengths and uses critical time to hide books, including one on how to make insulin, which ultimately does Dan no good since he dies before he can get to the books. Why do you think Dan takes time to hide the books and why do you think he does not take the one critical book on insulin production with him? Do you think what he did was wise or foolish? Discuss fully.

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