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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 is the name of the trading post on the map?

2. What does Brian eat before leaving on the raft?

3. What does the trading post consist of?

4. In Chapter 19, when Brian studies the map, he figures they are _____ from two hills that are on either side of the river.

5. What does Derek send Brian as a gift after the ordeal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is determined about Derek's condition, and how well does he recover?

2. How does Brian get the logs to the lake?

3. What does Brian see and hear, toward the end of Chapter 24?

4. What helps Brian fight sleep, in Chapter 18?

5. Why does Brian decide that he was foolish to leave the lake and trust the map?

6. How does Brian position Derek on the raft?

7. Describe the trading post and the people who live there.

8. Where does Brian put a note in case someone comes looking for them before they make it to the trading post?

9. Why is Brian frustrated when he passes six bends and still does not see the raft?

10. What happens to Brian as the raft goes through the rapids?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Brian is paddling the raft, he suffers from sleep deprivation. Discuss sleep deprivation and how it affects Brian.

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the novel, the author refers to the back story when Brian survived on his own. Discuss the back story and how the author tells the back story.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the protagonist and antagonist in the novel and how the conflicts between them advance plot.

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