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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. What animal started to hunt for the animal Helen domesticated?

2. What did Adrian unleash when he was working on the roof?

3. What caught fire in the cabin?

4. In the winter, what did Adrian make some money doing?

5. What did Adrian create at the beginning of Chapter 8, "A Beginning"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Hoovers do when they got their mimeograph?

2. Who was Walter?

3. Who was Blondie?

4. What was Helen's relationship with the locals like?

5. How did the Hoovers pass the time during the long winter nights?

6. What happened to the Hoovers' chickens?

7. What was the benefit of the structure Adrian built?

8. What was the Hoovers' first source of income from the cabin?

9. What did Adrian do while Helen was creating a mailing list based on responses to the advertisements?

10. What animals did the Hoovers see near their cabin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assess the extent to which the Hoovers are American in their project. In what ways are they fulfilling an American promise? In what way might they be running from American promises?

Essay Topic 2

How did living in the woods change how the Hoovers thought about money? Did they find new ways to make it? To live without it? To supplement it?

Essay Topic 3

How do you think the Hoovers' exercise will play out, based on what Helen Hoover wrote in the book? How long do you think they will last? What evidence does the book give of underlying feelings that would take them back to civilization, or running away from nature?

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