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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. For what channel does Martinez work?

3. How does Elena address Natalie?

4. Which of the following does Patience have in her apartment?

5. How do Owen and George decide who will look out from the polar bear trap?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Owen rush to save the polar bear?

2. What prevented Lars from going back after Akira?

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

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

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

6. To what does the novel liken a first-degree burn?

7. Where does Elena weather the storm?

8. How does the novel define a firebreak?

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

10. How does the novel define SNAP?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Consider the losses sustained in the novel by Akira, George, Owen, and Natalie. Which of them loses most? What in the text shows as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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