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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 Brown take to the Grand Canyon in?

2. In "True Lostness", what do Brown and Rick find in the beaver den?

3. In "Thaw", what do the police do to try to track the killer?

4. In "Search", what does Brown discover the handicapped man to be eating?

5. In "True Lostness", why do Rick and Brown spray paint messages on a sewer pipe?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Invisible Walking", what perfect, life-altering scene does Brown see?

2. How do Brown and Rick create an eerie mood for themselves in "Thaw"?

3. How does the spiritual pattern of the woods affect Brown in "Predator"?

4. What does "true lostness" mean?

5. What does Brown do during the summer of "Thoreau Summer"?

6. What does Brown say to himself after killing the deer in "Predator"?

7. What does Brown realize about the man by the Jeep in "The Journeyman"?

8. Who helps look for the lost handicapped man in "Search"?

9. What makes Brown question his education and path in life in "Search"?

10. In "True Lostness", why are the beavers dead?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Brown at odds with modern society? How does he seek to comes to terms with modern society and how does he try to set himself apart from modern society? What is the author saying about human society?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the importance of the following quote to the major themes expressed in this novel: "A skull is the ultimate track a creature leaves. When everything else has been unshaped by time, when every scratch and print is gone, the skull remains."

Essay Topic 3

Rick and Brown collect skulls. What is symbolic about the skulls? How does this act bind the two in friendship? What happens to the skulls when Rick moves away?

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