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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 did the lights of Koh Samui glow like?

2. Where did Richard explain for the two Americans to wait for him?

3. What had happened to the main character's neighbor?

4. Why did Richard tug at the back of his shirt?

5. What color was the watermark strip when it dipped below the ocean?

Short Essay Questions

1. What gave the illusion of a confined personal area, and how was the effect spoiled?

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

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

4. What did Francoise and Etienne fear when they had seen Richard chatting with the Americans? Why was this?

5. Why had Richard initially begun traveling?

6. Why did it surprise Richard that he had volunteered to go for the Rice Run?

7. Why did Richard keep an open mind when it came to Jed?

8. What were the two ways that Richard could get to the garden? Which route did Richard take and why?

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

10. What conveyed a sense or normalcy to Richard when he had woken up?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how the beach community must remain a secret and for what reasons everyone diligently keeps that secret. What does the beach have the potential to become if it becomes exposed? How is this an undesirable outcome? Are the methods employed at keeping the secret of the beach a bit heinous in their extremity? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the shark attack. In what manner was it the start of the downfall of paradise on the beach? How did it change things for the residents of the beach, and how were things never again the same afterward?

Essay Topic 3

Attempt to explain the camps swarming and subsequent mutilation of the bodies of the rafters. Try and provide some explanations for this bizarre and frightening behavior. How does this mark the complete and utter dissolution of the camps' social structure?

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