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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 school of tiny fish that Tiny and Sparky on April 22 catch taste?
2. How is Guaymas different from the other towns they have been in?
3. After facing difficulties collecting specimens, what do Steinbeck and Ricketts do instead on Easter Sunday ?
4. Which statement best describes the marine life in Puerto Escondido?
5. What does the expedition party catch in Concepcion Bay?
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. Describe the expedition party's experience with their camera equipment. What happens with the equipment and what resolutions are derived from their experience?
3. Discuss Steinbeck's lamentations on the briefness of their expedition, and how he wished that they have brought full-sized aquariums.
4. Discuss Steinbeck's theory on how a harsh environment makes survivors out of its inhabitants, and how he came to this train of thought.
5. 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.
6. In Marcial Point around noon on Easter Sunday, Steinbeck and Ricketts manage to catch a big, beautiful lobster despite the difficulties they have encountered. How do you think Steinbeck and Ricketts managed to catch this lobster? Speculate on the efforts of the team.
7. Tiny harpoons stingrays at the island of Tiburon. Give probable explanations to Tiny's seemingly attachment to harpoons. Cite specific examples in the book to support this explanation.
8. Describe Steinbeck and Ricketts' encounter with the ranchers and vacationers, and their consequent big sheep-hunting expedition.
9. Describe how life in the Western Flyer becomes by the end of March. How does it chang compared when they first sailed to sea?
10. Discuss on Steinbeck's theory on how relaxation and laziness can lead to greater productivity.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Steinbeck makes the analogy of trying to keep a straight course to achieving ideals in life. Please discuss this analogy further. What are the similarities and differences of the two? In both cases, what attitudes and behaviors are desirable? On the other hand, what attitudes and behaviors should one avoid?
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
One of Steinbeck's lamentations is over how a good hypothesis can blind a person to an alternative theory which can disprove it. What instances in the story support this theory of the author? What can be the reasons for this blindness? Are there any more observations made by the author that supports this theory?
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