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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. With which of the following does the Parts 5 begin?

2. Which of the following does Akira’s family have in its go-bag?

3. Which of the following does Owen cite as a local landmark?

4. Which of the following does Akira encounter in the woods?

5. How many stories tall is Akira’s house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the novel define a firebreak?

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

4. How does the novel describe the effect of blinders?

5. How does George’s father make a living after losing his job at the port?

6. What prevented Lars from going back after Akira?

7. What leads Owen to consider the ruination of Churchill?

8. How does the novel describe horses’ vision?

9. Why does the restauranteur Natalie encounters hesitate to open her freezer?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that Two Degrees should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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