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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. Which of the following do the vigilantes “protect”?

2. What is the nature of Patience’s place of business?

3. Who speaks after Natalie at the rally?

4. What was Patience’s place of business before she took it over?

5. What sound does the novel assign to the shattering glass at Akira’s house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Natalie question whether she can resume her friendship with Shannon?

2. How does the novel define SNAP?

3. How does the novel describe Akira’s second-degree burn (2248)?

4. Why does the area in which Patience lives rise above the storm water early on?

5. Why must Akira’s family flee their home on horse?

6. Why does Patience put Natalie to work taking people’s information?

7. Of what does Natalie dream at Patience’s apartment?

8. Why does Akira initially wonder if the plane she sees overhead is lost?

9. Why does Akira not argue with her father about climate change?

10. Why does Patience rail against the vigilantes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in Two Degrees? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 3

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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