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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the snow do once it reaches the ceiling?
2. At the beginning of Part 4, how is the darkness coming?
3. How does Paul respond when the doctor asks how he is feeling?
4. As the snow continues to consume Paul's life, what is the second instruction he is given?
5. What does the doctor ask Paul to do in the beginning of his examination?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The doctor's examination is a crucial turning point in the story, and for Paul.
1) Describe the doctor's personality and characteristics. How do they add to his ability to evaluate Paul accurately?
2) Describe Paul's interpretation of the doctor and his actions. How does he view himself in comparison to the doctor? Why?
3) What is the major discovery that the doctor makes about Paul? How does he make it? Why does the author choose this character to make it, and how is it important to the story?
Essay Topic 2
In an analysis of Paul's walk home from school in Part 2, provide answers to the following:
1) What are three examples of things that Paul sees, and how do they represent the character's state of mind?
2) How is the snow used to counter reality? Describe the way Paul views the snow in comparison to the real things he encounters.
3) What is his general impression of the outside world? How has it changed, and why?
Essay Topic 3
As Paul withdraws into his room, his mother follows him and opens the door, interrupting the snow's agenda and signaling the final events of the story.
1) Describe the way Paul's mother is perceived by both Paul and the snow, and how those perceptions display the extreme illogical state he is in.
2) What is Paul's response to his mother, and how does the way he reaches for his response indicate his separation from life?
3) Why is Paul's mother unable to help him? How is Paul completely detached from himself at this point? How does the way he responds to his mother represent the final barrier between him and the snow?
4) Explain the way Paul thinks after he rejects his mother's help, what is strange about it and what it eventually leads to. What is the last thing that Paul sees, and how does it reflect the length of the story?
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