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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 beverage do Hank and Jacob overindulge on in Chapter Five?

2. What is the name of Hank's baby in Chapter Five?

3. How does Hank intend to make Jacob's murder look like an accident in Chapter Three?

4. Whom does Sarah say she ran into at the supermarket in Chapter Four?

5. What is the name of Lou's girlfriend?

Short Essay Questions

1. What decision does Hank come to about Penderson in Chapter Three? Why?

2. What does Hank do with Penderson's snowmobile in Chapter Three?

3. What do Hank, Lou, and Jacob question about the money from the plane after finding it in Chapter One?

4. What does Jacob ask Hank and Carl when he emerges from the truck in Chapter One?

5. Why does Hank call Jacob in the morning of Chapter Three?

6. Where does Hank find Sarah in the morning of Chapter Three?

7. How do Sarah's motivations begin to evolve in Chapter Four? What does this indicate?

8. What conversation do Jacob and Hank have about their parents in Chapter Five?

9. Whom does Hank find Jacob talking with when he returns to the car in Chapter Three?

10. Why does Jacob cry in Chapter Three? What argument ensues between Jacob and Hank?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the setting of A Simple Plan. Where is Ashenville, Ohio located? What is the climate like at this location? In what year and month does the novel begin?

Essay Topic 2

Describe examples of foreshadowing from the text. How does Hank's discovery of the machete and farming manual represent foreshadowing?

Essay Topic 3

Identify and discuss the narrative voice of the novel and Hank Mitchell as the protagonist. What character traits does Hank embody in Chapter One?

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