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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 Lee receive from the nurse?

2. What happens a day after the accident?

3. Who tells Henry that Joe-Ben is dead?

4. What is Viv massaging into Lee's back?

5. Of whom is Hank getting suspicious?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Henry's time in the town.

2. In what way has Simone changed in Chapter 10?

3. In what way are the Canadian geese in both Hank and Lee's thoughts?

4. What is different about the novel's point of view?

5. Describe Willard's phone call to Hank.

6. Describe Hank's time at the Snag.

7. Summarize the prologue that opens Chapter 7.

8. What is Willard's mistress' plan to continue their relationship?

9. Summarize the prologue that opens Chapter 10.

10. How do Evenwrite and Draeger get to the Stamper's house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel is set mostly in the state of Oregon.

1) What meaning does Oregon bring to the novel? What would you automatically presume about a novel that was set in Oregon?

2) How different do you think today's Oregon is to the Oregon in the novel? How do you think the novel's meaning would change if it were set in today's Oregon?

Essay Topic 2

Sometime a Great Notion is an influential novel. Choose a book written after Sometimes a Great Notion that you think was influenced by the novel and discuss their similarities in terms of

a) plot

b) character

c) themes.

Essay Topic 3

Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story? How does Kesey use character and setting to express these themes?

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