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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. How far does Frightful travel in ten minutes to reach Sam's mountain when she is freed by Jon Wood in "Frightful Finds Sam"?
2. Why is Frightful unable to see in the opening montage of the novel?
3. What term refers to wind that varies with height due to a balance between the coriolis and pressure-gradient forces in the atmosphere?
4. Who lives at Woodchuck Lodge?
5. Who is the president of the New York Electric Company that Jon Wood gives the address to the children so they can write to him about the electric poles?
Short Essay Questions
1. When is Frightful released in "Frightful Finds Sam"? What does she do once released?
2. Why is it significant that Frightful sleeps on her breast in "Frightful Finds Sam"?
3. Who are Bate and Spud?
4. What is Frightful's main objective in the beginning of the novel? What actions does she take toward that objective in "Frightful Takes Off"?
5. How does Frightful respond to the eyases in "Frightful Goes to Falcon School"?
6. Where is the main setting of the novel? Describe this setting.
7. Describe Frightful. What role does Frightful play in the story?
8. What happens to Frightful just as she spots Jon Wood in "Disaster Leads to Survival"? Why?
9. Why does Jon Wood starve Frightful in "Hunger is Frightful's Teacher"?
10. What foreshadowing regarding the bridge is revealed in "Disaster Leads to Survival"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the narrative style of Frightful's Mountain. From what perspective is the story related? Is the narrative related from a character within the action of the story? Is the story told in past or present tense? What is the significance of each of these choices of the author's?
Essay Topic 2
Outline, analyze, and discuss the plot structure of Frightful's Mountain. What is the inciting event that leads into the action of the story? Where is the climax? What information is related to the reader in the falling action and denouement?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the theme of justice in Frightful's Mountain. How is justice developed as a theme through character? How is it developed through symbolism and imagery? What statement do you think the author is making about justice? Why?
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