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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. To which of the following is the novel dedicated?

2. Which of the following does Owen’s mother send with her son?

3. With which of the following do the Parts 2 begin?

4. What team’s jersey does Javari wear?

5. In which of the following does Natalie’s father live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What comfort does Anne offer Natalie?

2. What does Owen note about polar bears’ heat retention?

3. Why is Natalie worried about being driven into a canal?

4. Why do Elena and Natalie consider Beatriz family?

5. For what reason does Owen like the quiet time of year in Churchill?

6. Why, per the novel, does Churchill see so many polar bears?

7. Why do Natalie and Elena not evacuate Miami?

8. Why can Akira not risk staying in the pool at Nova’s house?

9. How does Akira posit that the fire has gotten in front of them as she and Sue flee Nova’s house?

10. How do Natalie and the Evanses escape the Evans home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Readerly attention focuses on the following passage: “‘Some people are always going to take without giving,’ [Patience] said. ‘I’m always going to give without taking’” (3504). Considering your own reading of the novel, what accounts for the attention paid to the passage? Why might it attract attention?

Essay Topic 2

If one character has to be identified as the antagonist in Two Degrees, who is it? What in the novel shows as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Overall, what is the most important theme of Two Degrees. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

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