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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. How does the expedition party feel about Puerto Refugio?
2. What does the author tell us about the camera that they brought in the expedition?
3. What does the expedition party use instead of the tide chart to watch the rise and fall of the tides?
4. How is Guaymas different from the other towns they have been in?
5. How does the life on the boat change as they get nearer the Sea of Cortez?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the members of the expedition party pass the night of March 29? What discussions are happening and what are the revelations of this night?
2. Explain Steinbeck's theory on how man can improve himself and the human race if only he studies certain cycles in civilization.
3. Discuss Steinbeck's theory on how societal restrictions dictate what is acceptable behavior and what is not. What introduced this discussion?
4. Describe the expedition party's experience with their camera equipment. What happens with the equipment and what resolutions are derived from their experience?
5. At the port city of Laredo, the members of the expedition team serve as merriment to the local girls. Speculate on the reasons on why this is so and give probable explanations to this happening.
6. When the group is discussing the activities of the Japanese dredge boats and trawlers, Steinbeck contradicts himself from his earlier position on food wastage. What is Steinbeck's new position on the food wastage?
7. This particular section when the expedition party are near Guaymas and see these spotless fishermen is dated Aprill 22, which proves to be erratic. Give probable explanations to the error in date.
8. Describe how life in the Western Flyer becomes by the end of March. How does it chang compared when they first sailed to sea?
9. Describe Steinbeck and Ricketts' encounter with the ranchers and vacationers, and their consequent big sheep-hunting expedition.
10. Discuss Steinbeck's theory on how a harsh environment makes survivors out of its inhabitants, and how he came to this train of thought.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Steinbeck makes the observation that not having clear aims coupled with the continued need or want for more, leads to apparent useless pastimes such as sports and games. Do you agree or disagree to this observation? Be sure to support your position with specific instances from the story.
Essay Topic 2
The story ends with the Western Flyer heading back to its point of origin. Steinbeck notes that they do not fully understand everything that they have experienced, and will surely take time for them to do so. Explain what Steinbeck means with this statement. What does he mean when he says "new way of thinking, living and being"?
Essay Topic 3
Tony, the captain, loves the rightness of all things and abhors wrongness. Do you subscribe to his beliefs, or do you think Tony is an unrealistic idealist? Cite specific examples in the book when Tony's beliefs became helpful. Cite also specific examples in the book when Tony's beliefs did more harm than good.
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