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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 has Will given up farming for?

2. What does Claire tell Henry she thinks about him?

3. What draws Will's attention to Joe?

4. What does Joe die of?

5. What does Henry remember, at the beginning of Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Henry's experience finding work in New York?

2. Describe Solstice's death.

3. Describe the scene in which Henry met Claire.

4. What does Henry think about finding the job of forest ranger?

5. What does Henry remember of his father at the funeral?

6. Describe Joe's death.

7. What does Henry dream in the postlude?

8. How does Claire die?

9. What is Grace's opinion of Henry's relationship with Claire?

10. Why does Henry return to New York?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where does the novel change voices or tones, and what do these shift in voice or tone tell us about the book? How does the prelude, for instance, frame the book by being told from another person's perspective?

Essay Topic 2

What does drinking represent in 'Fool's Progress'? What ideas or feelings is it associated with? What is Henry doing by drinking? Celebrating something, hiding something, avoiding something? What is it, and how does Abbey describe it?

Essay Topic 3

Assess the claim that in Henry Lightcap, Edward Abbey is dramatizing Thoreau's instruction to 'simplify, simplify, simplify'? In what ways is Henry Lightcap simplifying his life? In what ways is he always complicating it? What is the value of the simplicity he espouses?

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