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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 the gas station attendant recognize?

2. Does Jane feel loss or grief about her father's death?

3. How does Jane feel when Oliver stops having sex with her?

4. Who does Rebecca meet at the diner?

5. Where does Oliver's car run out of gas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Joley write in his letter to Jane at Fishtrap, Montana?

2. What happens after Jane and Rebecca speed past Ernie Barb?

3. How does Jane now act around Sam?

4. What does Joley write in his second letter to Jane?

5. What has become of Oliver and Jane's marriage?

6. What happens when Jane arrives at the next location to meet Jake?

7. What happens when Jane and Rebecca meet Joseph Tall Neck?

8. How does Oliver feel about his abilities at intercepting Jane and Rebecca?

9. How do Jane and Rebecca celebrate Rebecca's fifteenth birthday?

10. Describe the story Jane tells about being ten and goose hunting with her father.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the end of the book, Jane and Rebecca leave with some apples from the orchard.

Part 1) How do they end up with apples in their vehicle? How do they feel about this? Why?

Part 2) What do these apples symbolize? How do you know this?

Part 3) What might these apples signify about Jane and Rebecca's lives after the story ends? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Oliver's first love is studying whales.

Part 1) How do you know this is his first love? How does this affect his marriage and relationship with his daughter?

Part 2) How does his knowledge and love of whales make him overly confident? How does this also lead to an understanding of himself?

Part 3) How is this love of whales and the connection with water threaded through this story and in the lives of other characters?

Essay Topic 3

Jane and Rebecca run away, as if on autopilot.

Part 1) Why do they run away? How have they become, in a way, conditioned to run away?

Part 2) Do they believe this will fix their problems? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does this desire to run change as the story comes to and end? Why?

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