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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. In what does Oliver get his Master's from Harvard?

2. Immediately after Sam sees Oliver's media plea, where does he go?

3. What does Jane reveal happens for the first six months after Rebecca is born?

4. Where are Oliver, Jane and Rebecca going back to?

5. How does Sam apologize for the sheep shearing incident?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does this scene become slightly awkward?

2. What happens the next morning after Jane sleeps with Sam?

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

4. What do Sam and Hadley discuss over beer?

5. How do Oliver's plans to find Jane and Rebecca change?

6. How does Rebecca react to seeing the crash site?

7. How does the relationship between Jane and Sam change?

8. What takes place when Jane and Rebecca visit the Shedd Aquarium?

9. What happens to Jane when her mother and father argue and her mother eventually leaves?

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Hadley dies.

Part 1) How does Hadley die? What events lead up to his death? How could his death have been prevented?

Part 2) What does his death represent? How does his death affect the other characters in the story? Why are they affected this way?

Part 3) His death is learned early in the book. Other chapters after this explain the events leading up to his death. How does knowing he will die affect your feelings when reading about the events leading up to his death?

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