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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 do the Main Character, the Girlfriend and the person who comes to pick up the cat discuss early in Chapter 24?

2. After the couple checks into a hotel in Junitaki, what does the Main character do?

3. Who says that names are given to things with purpose that are familiar and not mass produced?

4. How does the person who picks up the cat feel about caring for the cat?

5. Whose suicide is revealed in Part 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Main Character feel that he is being used as a pawn?

2. Why is the Rat able to destroy the Sheep?

3. What is the importance of time to the characters in Chapter 24?

4. Was the Main Character a good choice for the Strange Man's sheep finding mission?

5. Is the Cat or the Main Character more at home in the world? Please fully support your answer.

6. How does the Main Character react to the Girlfriend's sudden disappearance?

7. Why is the Sheep able to control the Rat?

8. Aside from her powerful ears, is the Girlfriend a help or a hindrance to the Main Character?

9. How are the sheep at the sheep farm similar to the people that the Sheep is trying to control?

10. How does the Limo Driver feel about the cat?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A Wild Sheep Chase sends a message about mediocrity and authority. Explain the connection between the two themes and the characters in the novel. Describe which characters represent mediocrity, rising above it and authority and its use or abuse. Analyze the message the author is trying to send.

Essay Topic 2

Which chapter names are the best and the worst in A Wild Sheep Chase? Support your answer with a discussion of the effect of the title as it relates to themes and literary styles that may include foreshadowing, symbolism, character growth, plot development or anything else you find important to the story.

Essay Topic 3

The Will, the Gain, and the empire define the existence of the Sheep in A Wild Sheep Chase.

1) Explain how the Will, the Gain, and the empire come into existence in the novel.

2) Explain what situations could have existed or occurred that would have prevented these things from occurring.

3) Analyze how the Will, the Gain, and the empire in the novel relate to the world you live in.

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