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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 went with Terry to Telegraph Cove?

2. What kind of scientists did Terry work with at Silver Island?

3. Who wrote, "The Courtship Habits of the Great Crested Grebe"?

4. What did Terry do when watching the curlews near the Golden Spike?

5. What did Terry find along Bear River Bay?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened while Terry was on the Native American excursion?

2. What gift did Diane get for Terry when she moved to Emigration Canyon Road?

3. What is the Golden Spike?

4. What happened to Terry at the Escalante River?

5. Why did Terry go to the Abbey?

6. What is historically significant about Emigration Canyon Road?

7. What did Terry do on Hank's birthday for the dinner, and why?

8. What did Terry say about how cancer patients die?

9. What did Dian have a surgery for after the family portrait?

10. What did the magpies disrupt in Terry's life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fear is a common theme in this book that is presented a number of times by a number of people. What are some of these instances, and how does fear affect the people in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Which person did you relate to the most in this book? Why is this? How did this person change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 3

Diane and Terry are two very similar people, and yet they have some very notable and important differences. Using the text to cite some support and, write a compare/contrast essay about these two characters.

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