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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 do Patience and Natalie address the passed storm?

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

3. Which of the following is the first donation Natalie and Patience receive together?

4. Which of the following is identified to Natalie as a need?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What prevented Lars from going back after Akira?

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

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

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

5. Why does Lars assert his house is safe from fire?

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

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

8. Why does Patience rail against the vigilantes?

9. How does the novel explain what a bald in the Sierra Nevada is?

10. How does the novel describe horses’ vision?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At several points, the novel confronts its characters with corpses inside cars. What purpose does the specific imagery serve, what in the novel attests to that purpose, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Sources attest to the presence of Two Degrees on bestseller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

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