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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 Oliver observe about the aircraft ruins?

2. What does Jane whisper to Sam?

3. Where do Sam and Oliver find Hadley and Rebecca asleep?

4. How does crying to Sam help Jane?

5. Why does Jane cry?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jane do as Rebecca climbs through the ruins of the airplane?

2. How does Oliver try to show Jane and Rebecca where he is?

3. How does Hadley die?

4. What advice does Joley give Jane? How does she respond?

5. What do Sam and Hadley discuss over beer?

6. What does Joley say in his letter to Jane?

7. How does this scene become slightly awkward?

8. How does Oliver help a whale?

9. How do Sam's actions show he is interested in Jane?

10. What decisions do the adults make about finding Rebecca?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are references to Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden.

Part 1) When is there reference to Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden? Is this reference direct or indirect? Explain.

Part 2) What is the purpose of this reference? How does it affect the rest of the story?

Part 3) What message is sent to the audience through this reference? Must one have knowledge of this Biblical story to fully understand this novel? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

There is a telepathic connection between Jane and Joley.

Part 1) How do you know this?

Part 2) How has this connection come about? How does their past help bind these two characters together?

Part 3) How does the close relationship between these two characters affect their relationships with others? Why?

Essay Topic 3

At one point in the story, though Rebecca is feverish, scarred, and weak, it is Jane who needs healing.

Part 1) How has Rebecca become like this? Why does Jane need to be healed?

Part 2) How does this reveal a role reversal between this mother and daughter? At what other times do they reverse roles? Why do they reverse roles?

Part 3) How does the fact that Rebecca is physically injured, yet Jane needs healing reveal about the extent to which Jane has been emotionally scarred?

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