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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. In what grade is Natalie in the novel?

3. What does Owen take from the trap?

4. Which of the following does Akira note losing to the fire?

5. What is the symbol for the rally?

Short Essay Questions

1. What occasions the food shortage in Churchill that Owen recalls?

2. How does the novel describe horses’ vision?

3. How does the novel define a firebreak?

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

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

6. How does the novel define SNAP?

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

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

9. What preparations does Patience say should have been made before the storm came?

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

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

If one character has to be identified as the antagonist in Two Degrees, who is it? What in the novel shows as much, and how does it do so?

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