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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 do the group members hear approaching the houseboat as they play cards?

2. How does Hayduke say he escaped Bishop Love?

3. What circles the group as it runs away?

4. What does the ranger find inside the boxes of explosives?

5. What is Abbzug angry at the loss of when they reach the forest?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Doc elude the driver that pursues him?

2. What does the newspaper say about the coal train?

3. How do Smith and Hayduke cope when they split from Abbzug and Doc?

4. How does the group blow up the train tracks?

5. How do the characters' lives change after the trial?

6. How is Smith captured?

7. What is the group's plan in Chapter 26?

8. How is Hayduke a different person when he smokes marijuana?

9. What does Hayduke tell the group about his experiences in Vietnam?

10. How does Hayduke respond to Abbzug's declaration of love?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Abbey view the 1970s? What impact has his ideas had on environmental groups? Has that impact been mainly positive, or mainly negative?

Essay Topic 2

Aside from the main characters, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 3

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

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