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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 is his Sophie's last name?

2. What causes an argument between Joseph Strorm and Angus Morton?

3. David admits to Axel that he can communicate with how many people?

4. When David gets home after leaving the Wenders' house, David finds his father speaking with whom?

5. What was the Dakers’ cat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What promise does David make to his new friend and her mother?

2. What commonly appears to David in a dream?

3. According to the teachings that every child in Waknuk learns, what is a Norm? What is a Mutant?

4. How is Sophie’s secret discovered? What happens as a result?

5. What is the “Definition of Man” that David was taught as a child? What does he realize when he remembers it?

6. Why does David get in trouble during the splinter incident?

7. What happens to David's new friend while they are playing? What does David do to help?

8. What are the Black Coasts?

9. Who is the narrator of the novel? What important facts about him are stated at the opening of the novel?

10. What did Axel tell David about the Badlands?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you compare and contrast David’s world with our own. What similarities do you see? What differences?

Essay Topic 2

Explain how the novel functions as an allegory, using examples from the text to support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

David experiences great change over the course of the novel. In what ways does David change and in what ways does he remain the same? By the novel’s end, is he better for these changes? Explain your opinion using examples from the text.

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