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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 new shapes does Johannes see and become fascinated by in Chapter 4?

2. What color is the night when Bertrand finds Johannes in Chapter 15?

3. What did the man who caught Johannes call him in Chapter 6?

4. How fast is Johannes when he runs?

5. What scent does Johannes smell on the wind when it begins to rain in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Johannes put on a leash?

2. How does Johannes explain how he got caught with a leash?

3. How does Johannes escape?

4. How does Johannes save a toddler?

5. What does Bertrand like to do when the archers are shooting at targets?

6. What does Johannes see delivered to the new building?

7. How did Johannes become the Eyes, and what does he do?

8. Why does Johannes decide that freeing the Bison needs to take place at night?

9. How does Twisty want to use Johannes?

10. What are the Assistant Eyes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Helene is ostracized by the other goats. Why do the other goats ostracize her?

Essay Topic 2

Accumulation is a literary device that allows an author to gather scattered ideas in a literary work and gradually build on information readers need to know. From whose perspective are various sections of The Eyes and the Impossible told? How does each section add information? How does Eggers use accumulation to advance the plot and provide important details to readers?

Essay Topic 3

Johannes rescues a little girl who falls into the duck pond. What are the unintended consequences of rescuing the girl? How and why does Johannes’s life change because of those consequences?

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