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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 Will find Mr. Lionel Eberhart doing at the nursing home?
2. What does Kitty think is wrong with Allison?
3. How does Will know how long he's been in the cave?
4. What is the one part about her new life in the greenhouse that Allison doesn't like?
5. How old was Will when we went on the cross country trip with his father?
Short Essay Questions
1. What forces Will to leave the cave?
2. What news does Kitty tell Will about her family when they talk in the parking lot of the country club?
3. What does Will take with him into the cave?
4. After Will falls into the greenhouse, what is it that makes Allison think she knows who he is before she sees his face?
5. What makes Allison feel like she needs another person in her life?
6. What does Allison enjoy about taking care of Will that makes her think she should nurse comatose patients?
7. When Will sees himself in the mirror of his Mercedes after leaving the greenhouse, what does he think he looks like?
8. What urgent message does Bernie have for Will when Will gets back home after being away in the cave and the greenhouse?
9. What psychological breakthrough does Will make as he sits in his car thinking?
10. How does Allison feel about doing the errands that Will asks her to do?
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
The Second Coming is populated with a lot of single, older men. Discuss the role of the old men like Mr. Ryan, Mr. Arnold, and Father Weatherbee in the novel. What do you think these older men represent in the novel? Why are there so many of them? What happens to these old men in the end?
Essay Topic 3
Will and Allison are both attuned to nature, noticing clouds, grass, trees, birds, ants, and so on, throughout the course of the novel. Discuss Walker Percy's use of nature in the novel and how the appreciation of nature contributes to Will and Allison's characters.
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