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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. Who rescued Antoine after the natural disaster?

2. What color are the strange rocks that Antoine found in the place he thinks no other human had been?

3. What does Antoine say a plane makes the desolate become?

4. What color was the sky on the day that Antoine saw the natural disaster?

5. What did some people say was far better than a tractor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Antoine notice about the sky just before the typhoon?

2. What does Antoine say happens to people when they fly above the Earth?

3. How long did Guillaumet go without sleeping while he was stranded and why?

4. What does Antoine say about women when he landed in Punta Arenas?

5. What did Antoine think as he boarded the bus heading to his first day of flying?

6. How does Antoine describe Guillaumet's reaction to trials and obstacles?

7. What did a communication from Casablanca tell Antoine while he is lost that brings him comfort?

8. Why did the locals refuse to join the search for Guillaumet when he went missing?

9. What happened to Antoine's hands during his flight through the typhoon?

10. How did Guillaumet get stranded in the first place?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The pursuit of happiness was a common theme. What parts of the book embody this theme, and how did that pursuit affect the people involved?

Essay Topic 2

Antoine includes some ingenious forms of irony in this book. What are some of these examples, and how does their ironic nature affect the feeling of his narrative?

Essay Topic 3

Despair was an emotion that affected Antoine a number of times. What are some of these instances, what caused these feelings of despair, and how was Antoine able to overcome them?

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