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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. Why was Bugs respected?

2. When was their ETA?

3. How big was the lizard?

4. Where did the Songserm ferry go to?

5. Who was going on the rice run?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What made the map intricate?

4. What had the Filipino guy that Richard had met taught him about jellyfish?

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

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

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

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

9. What had guaranteed that Richard would get batteries, and how had it come to pass?

10. How did Richard feel about his parting from the two Americans the last time?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss whether or not paradise is truly possible. What human flaws make paradise an almost impossible endeavor? Do you think it is possible for people to learn to work together indefinitely? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Richard's character. What do his actions reveal about him? What psychological terms apply to Richard and his regard of human life and his actions? What other characters with this same psychological condition likely shared these traits with Richard and why?

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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