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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 country is NOT named as one to which Fiona and Grant had traveled during one of their winters after retirement?
2. On what type of property had Fiona's father grown up?
3. During Fiona's college years, she is described as seeing politics as a what?
4. Grant had once received a letter from which person associated with one of Grant's former lovers/students?
5. Who locates Fiona after her sudden disappearance from a particular location?
Short Essay Questions
1. How and when did Fiona and Grant first meet?
2. What gift does Grant bring to Fiona when he visits her at Meadowlake for the first time, and what is significant about the gift?
3. What question does Grant keep asking Kristy over and over during his first visit to see Fiona at Meadowlake?
4. What comment does Fiona make on the way to Meadowlake that makes Grant want to turn the car around?
5. In what month does Fiona move into Meadowlake and why?
6. Who is Kristy?
7. What event made it possible for both Fiona and Grant to retire early?
8. What would Grant have considered the ultimate price to pay for his adulterous ways?
9. What advice does Kristy finally give to Grant when he keeps asking the same question over and over?
10. What details lead the reader to conclude that Fiona and Grant's marriage had positive qualities?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What message does Munro send within the pages of "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" concerning the link between self-awareness and guilt?
Essay Topic 2
Write a critical essay about "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" while using the critical power theory lens of feminist theory. Use textual evidence to back up your strong, specific claim regarding the story's treatment of gender roles, the objectification of women, female empowerment, misogyny's role within society, or any other issues related to feminist theory that can be found in the story.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Munro's choice to tell the story of "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" using a third person omniscient narrator who knows all about Grant’s most private thoughts, feelings, and actions. What elements of the story's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Munro’s intended effects on the reader?
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