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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 happens a day after the accident?

2. What kind of instrument does the musician at the Snag destroy?

3. Lee moves into _________.

4. What do Lee and Hank both comment on in their narratives?

5. Where does Lee plan to head?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Henry's time in the town.

2. Describe what happens at the Snag in Chapter 6, Part 2.

3. Summarize the prologue that opens Chapter 11.

4. Why does Henry need to show Hank how to cut trees the old fashioned way?

5. Summarize the novel

6. Why does Lee refuse to get out of bed?

7. Why is Evenwrite worried about the rain?

8. Summarize the prologue that opens Chapter 8.

9. Why does Hank not want Joe-Ben to shoot the geese?

10. What is different about the novel's point of view?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify moments in the book that are dictated by the strike.

1) How far-reaching is the strike is on the local community? Does it affect areas outside the community as well?

2) Choose a character in the novel and find out how the strike affects and restricts that character's decisions.

Essay Topic 2

1)With the students, discuss what metaphors are. How do writers use them? Can the writers overuse them? Give examples of good and bad metaphors.

2) What other metaphors are there in the book? Do the metaphors center on anything specific?

Essay Topic 3

Kesey was a big part part of the counterculture. Using two examples from the novel, discuss the ways the story reflects Kesey's political ideas?

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