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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, according to the author in Chapter 4, is the first law of hunting sportsmanship?
2. How many moons does the unknown planet have, according to Jack?
3. Early in Chapter 4, Rod is no longer interested in the survival exam, but instead interested in what?
4. What sort of entrée does Rod enjoy during his meal at home in Chapter 2?
5. How do Rod and Jack break the fever of the person they discovered in a tree in Chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. What career field does Rod wish to pursue?
2. Where does Rod decide to sleep during his first night on an unknown planet, and what unforeseen difficulty does he experience?
3. Who does Rod finally agree to partner with, before traveling through the gate to an unknown planet?
4. At the end of Chapter 7, who joins Rod, Jack, and Jimmy in their cave settlement?
5. How does Jack finally convince Rod that they are not on Terra?
6. Describe the invention of Dr. Jesse Evelyn Ramsbotham, as compared with the item he intended to invent.
7. What unusual decision have Rod's parents made, and why?
8. How does Rod first encounter a student worthy of partnership?
9. Why is Chapter 6 titled, "I Think He's Dead?"
10. What sort of test does the main character, Rod Walker, contemplate taking at the beginning of "Tunnel in the Sky," and what is his reaction to learning that the test is eminent?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Robert A. Heinlein explain the technology involved in Ramsbotham Gates? How did the personality of the inventor, Dr. Jesse Evelyn Ramsbotham, as described in Chapter 2, lead to the invention of tunnel travel? How did the invention of tunnel travel transform the world of "Tunnel in the Sky?"
Essay Topic 2
When Grant Cowper campaigns to become Mayor of the student settlement in Chapter 8, he states, "We have no way of knowing...when we will be rescued. It might be tomorrow...It might be our descendants a thousand years from now. But when the main body of our great race reestablishes contact with us, it is up to us, this little group here tonight, whether they find a civilized society...or flea-bitten animals without language, without arts, with the light of reason gone dim...or no survivors at all, nothing but bones picked clean." What strategies does the group devise, to maintain a sense of civilization and to preserve their collective knowledge? What are the necessary components of civilization?
Essay Topic 3
What is Rod's dream job? Why is such a job important in his world? How do his experiences throughout "Tunnel in the Sky" prepare him for such a career? Why does he almost abandon his dreams near the end of the novel, when rescuers arrive?
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