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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 does Ben compare the small trout to in his dictation to his wife in Chapter 14?

2. What movie does Ben describe watching with his wife in Chapter 20?

3. Ben says in Chapter 11, "I look back on college and I think those were" what (94)?

4. In Ben's freshman year, he won the mile race in what time?

5. What does Ben say his wife once nominated herself as in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ben manage to kill the mountain lion?

2. How does Ben manage to travel with Ashley despite her injuries?

3. What are the initial concerns that Ben and Ashley face regarding their situation after the crash?

4. What memory of the loggerhead turtles does Ben relate?

5. What does Ben discover when he examines the plane's GPS?

6. What does Ben reveal about Rachel to Ashley after they have first left the crash site?

7. What is the first food that Ben finds for him and Ashley? How does he capture it?

8. How is Ben's father described in the narrative?

9. How does Ben describe the day that he became engaged to Rachel?

10. Why is Ashley in the airport in the beginning of the novel? What is her objective?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the events that lead up to the plane crash in the novel. Where are the main characters traveling? Why are they traveling in this manner? What causes the crash?

Essay Topic 2

Who or what is the central antagonist in The Mountain Between Us? In what ways is this demonstrated? How does this antagonist create conflict in the story?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of love in The Mountain Between Us. What does love mean to the two main characters? How do their feelings about love change in the course of the story? Why?

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