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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. How do Ora and Avram realize that are at Meron?
2. What does Avram suddenly announce about Ofer?
3. What does Ofer restore near Beit Nekofa?
4. Of what is Avram convinced when he begins writing to Ora?
5. What does Ora continue to tell Avram?
Short Essay Questions
1. How long did it take Ofer to make a bed and what did he do with it?
2. What fascinates Avram about Ofer and what did Ofer do when he was sixteen?
3. What did Ilan wonder about with Ofer and Avram and what is Ora's response? How do they feel about raising Ofer?
4. What did Ilan do when Avram was missing?
5. What did Avram begin to do after he and Ora got out of isolation and what did he think about Ilan and Ora?
6. What does Ora recall about the argument she and Ofer had about killing?
7. Where did Ora get Ofer's name and what does Ora feel about having daughters?
8. What does Avram tell Ora about what Ofer means to him and what does she do as he is talking?
9. What does Ora wonder about Ofer and the war what did Ofer do that was hard for Ora to handle?
10. What did Ora do when she canceled with a patient and left her office?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the following:
1. Research and write an expository essay about the political situation in Israel in the year 1967. What is Israel's attitude towards its Arab nations (choose one)? What is the Arab nations (choose one) attitude towards Israel? Is the only resolution to this conflict likely to be continual war? Why or why not?
2. Research and write an expository essay about the political situation in Israel in the year 2000. What is Israel's attitude towards its Arab nations (choose one)? What is the Arab nations (choose one) attitude towards Israel? Is the only resolution to this conflict likely to be continual war? Why or why not?
3. How does the political situation inform the plot of "To the End of the Land"? The characters' actions? The characters' beliefs?
Essay Topic 2
There are a number of interesting questions raised by "To the End of the Land". Questions that Grossman most likely want readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:
1. What does the term "author agenda" mean?
2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Grossman' agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Grossman' probable agenda concerning that idea.
2. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?
3. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss one of the following:
1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in "To the End of the Land".
2. Trace and analyze one major theme of "To the End of the Land". How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of "To the End of the Land". How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
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