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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 much does George assert the polar bear weighs?

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

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

4. In what grade was Owen when Churchill suffered a food shortage?

5. Which sound does the novel describe a polar bear making?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What urges Natalie to seek shelter with Patience?

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

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

6. How does the novel describe horses’ vision?

7. Why does Patience rail against the vigilantes?

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

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

10. What prevented Lars from going back after Akira?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Gratz’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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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