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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 does Paul say about the personnel at McCoy?

2. Where does Randy stop on his way home from town?

3. What kind of daily routine does Florence have?

4. What does Randy tell Helen to get at Beck's hardware?

5. Who shares the income from family holdings with Randy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bill McGovern say to Randy about his warning from Mark?

2. Where does Randy find Dan and what happens?

3. Who are the Bragg brothers and what are they both doing at the beginning of the book?

4. What does Dan say about Peyton's eyes and what does he do about them?

5. What happens when Mark's flight arrives at McCoy?

6. What does Randy hear on the radio while driving to Orlando?

7. What does Edgar Quisenberry do and how does he feel about it?

8. Who barges in on Randy after he returns home from his errands in town and what does she say?

9. Where does Randy go after he leaves the grocery store and what does he do?

10. How does Florence know Randy and what does she think of him in the beginning of the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Randy's final humiliation of Edgar by trading paper for cash to buy goods symbolizes the fate he boasts won't happen with him in charge.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Why do you think Edgar is unwilling to see what might be the reality of the situation with his bank?

3. Describe one other use of symbolism you've seen in the book so far.

Essay Topic 2

They take one prisoner to hang the next day in town. They leave three dead highwaymen to rot on the road as a silent witness that crime in Fort Repose won't pay.

1. Justice has been changed by "The Day." No trials, appeals, etc. just martial law and a swift hanging. Do you think this is good or bad? Why or why not?

2. Why do you think Randy wanted to hang the highwayman instead of just shooting him out on the road?

3. If you had the responsibility that Randy has how would you have handled the problem of highwaymen? Use several examples to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Civilization retreats a hundred years in Fort Repose on The Day.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. What do you think would happen in the United States in the present if all electrical power was permanently lost?

3. Do you think the loss of government and electrical power would cause some people to act better and some to behave worse than normal? Why or why not?

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