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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 the author write about in detail in Chapter 12?

2. After Bach spends years focusing on the spiritual side of life, who or what brings Bach back to reality?

3. Leslie gives Bach a second present. What is this present?

4. Which woman has been the closest to being Bach's soul mate?

5. What does Bach discover that Leslie has an uncanny memory for in their many conversations?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bach sell his biplane?

2. How does Bach know that Katherine is not his soul mate?

3. What does Leslie help Bach realize about his high school English teacher?

4. What does Bach's relationship with Donna help him see?

5. What troubling thing does Stan say about corruption?

6. When Richard talks with Eleanor in Chapter 3, she is shocked. What shocks Eleanor?

7. How does Bach start to take notice of Leslie in a new way after they eat ice cream together?

8. How would the conversations between Bach and Leslie be described?

9. What does Kathy want when she calls Bach in Chapter 15?

10. What is comical about the night that Bach meets Donald Shimoda?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 2, the author is writing a letter to himself about things that would have been useful twenty years ago. What are seven things Bach would have found useful twenty years ago and why would he have found each of these useful? Use details from the story to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

How does Richard Bach change from the beginning of the story to the end of the story? Give six examples from the story to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Bach seems to have a laid-back personality throughout the story. How does Bach's laid-back personality help him in his personal and professional live? Does this laid-back personality hinder Bach in his personal or professional life? Give four examples from the story to support your answer.

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