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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 had happened to the main character's neighbor?

2. What year was this character in Vietnam?

3. Not being able to finish the swim would mean what?

4. What did Richard buy?

5. Why was Bugs respected?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the problem with the rucksacks and how was it solved?

2. What did all the people that were taken to the beach have in common? Who was the odd person out?

3. Why didn't Richard stay where he was in the tidal cave?

4. Why had Richard initially begun traveling?

5. Why did Richard consider himself pretty lucky?

6. What game did the three people play as they swum out to sea? How did Richard feel about the game?

7. How did Richard feel when he had touched the walls in the room?

8. What was the purpose of the lashed together branches?

9. What had been Richards primary goal when he had started traveling? What were his goals, specifically?

10. Why did Richard feel as though he was governed by someone else in retrospect?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss whether or not living in paradise for any length of time would taint the way a person would perceive paradise. Explain your answer citing the book, and explain the contradiction in Richard's arrival in Koh Phangan and his return to England.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Sal and Daffy's relationship. What evidence is there to suggest that there was more than just friendship on their minds? Has this evidence left the reader to suspect that they may have been romantically linked? If not, is there evidence to suggest that either Sal or Daffy wanted to be more than just friends? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Daffy's comment about 'living with Cancer". What do you think that comment was directed at, and why? What would Daffy consider to be cancer? How was he released from living with Cancer? Explain your answer.

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