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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. Whence comes Natalie’s math teacher?

2. With what does Akira entice her horse to put on blinders?

3. Which of the following do Owen and George find inside Jimmy’s Place?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the novel define a firebreak?

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

3. What, in the novel, is a “polar bear welcome mat” (2339)?

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

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

6. Why does Patience rail against the vigilantes?

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

8. Per the novel, what is the eye of the hurricane?

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

10. What do Owen and George realize the polar bear that pursues them is doing when they cannot see it from the trap?

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

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 3

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?

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