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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 many shells does George’s shotgun hold?

2. What kind of tree do Owen and George see as they flee towards home?

3. What sound does the novel assign to the shattering glass at Nova’s house?

4. What is the name of Owen’s family’s business?

5. In what month do the novel’s events in the Sierra Nevada occur?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had Natalie and Shannon planned to dress as for Halloween?

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

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

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

5. Why does Akira wear clothes she does not mind getting wet while riding?

6. In what order do those on the boat in the Florida storm debark?

7. What belief about polar bears and igloos does George report?

8. What variation on a cliché does Akira think of at Nova’s house (1639)?

9. What does George do to relieve Owen after they escape the momma bear?

10. Why does Lars note “A little fire is good for a forest” (107)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 2

To what genre other than thriller might Two Degrees be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Conversely, which of Akira, George, Owen, and Natalie gains the most? What in the text shows as much, and how does it do so?

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