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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 woman's daughter that she describes as being "retarded" in Chapter 3?

2. How many miles did the author and Weston have left to travel in the beginning of Chapter 9?

3. What is the name of Weston's mother?

4. Who was the author's best friend in high school that he first confided he was gay to?

5. Where did the author's parents finish their walk across America?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the author do to prepare for his journey?

2. What is El Tercer Lugar and how is it described?

3. Who wrote the quote that opens the Prologue, and what does this quote mean?

4. What does the author write about travel in his opening Prologue?

5. What prompted the author to take his journey across the Americas?

6. How did Diego explain the name of El Tercer Lugar?

7. What did Linda remark about Weston's behavior?

8. What language barriers did the author face on his journey?

9. Where did the author work before he began his journey?

10. How does the author describe his religious background?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's completion of his journey. Where did his journey end? Why did he choose this ending site? What did he do to celebrate?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the setting where the author began his journey. Why did he choose this setting? How is the setting described? What were his perceptions of this setting as the journey began?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the plot structure and development in To Shake the Sleeping Self. Where would you denote the narrative's climax? How does the author build up to that climax? What information is related in the falling action and denouement of the plot?

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