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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 does Allison buy the can of Brasso for?
2. Who does Will liken Bertie to?
3. What does Kitty ask Will to do?
4. What does Will Barrett see as a sign that the end of the world might be near at hand?
5. Why does Allison look at her drivers license several times?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Allison want to move the old stove into her greenhouse?
2. What is it that Will Barrett realizes when he falls down during the golf game at the opening of the novel?
3. Why does Allison refuse Will's help in moving the stove?
4. How does Allison get all of the things she purchases in town back to the greenhouse?
5. What does Will hope to prove with his experiment?
6. What makes Allison feel like she needs to move quickly to get the stove into the greenhouse?
7. Why does Will choose Sutter Vaught to be the beneficiary of his life insurance?
8. What does Allison talk to the man in the garage of Washau Motors about?
9. Why doesn't Will do anything about the poacher on his land?
10. How do Allison and Will meet the first time?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay discussing what Will is searching for in the novel The Second Coming. Use examples from the text to support your thesis. Is he searching for God, for love, for meaning, for a purpose, or something else entirely?
Essay Topic 2
Money can't buy happiness, but as some of the characters in the novel show, it can certainly buy other things. Discuss the theme of wealth in the novel, using Will, Allison, and Jack Curl to show how their different attitudes towards money provide different perspectives in the novel. Provide specific examples from the text to support your argument.
Essay Topic 3
Will and Allison both have epiphanies in the beginning of the novel, each realizing something important about life that will shape how that character reacts throughout the rest of the novel. Write an essay in which you discuss what Will and Allison each discover about life and how each character's discovery affects his or her relationships throughout the rest of the novel.
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