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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 do Lon and Rick see back at the camp?

2. How long does Rick care for the eagle?

3. Where does the pit bull grab hold?

4. How does Rick indicate his desire to land?

5. What will happen if Maverick flies further east?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rick do after he hears the men talking about Lon?

2. How does Rick feel when he hang glides with Lon the first time and what does Lon tell him to do? How does Rick feel after he is settled on the glider?

3. How does Rick hike in the Maze and what does he find there? Why is Lon excited when Rick returns from the maze?

4. What does Lon tell Josh about M4, what favor does he ask of Josh and why?

5. Why does Lon call Rick Icarus, what does Rick ask about the cliffs and what is Lon's response?

6. What does Rick do on his third and fourth day hang gliding?

7. What does Lon tell Rick about how he became involved with condors?

8. How does Rick find Lon, and how does he rescue him?

9. What does Rick do about Carlile and finding Lon's missing items?

10. What does Rick see when he is on the glider, and what problem does he encounter in the glider?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lon works to save the condors. He complains about people shooting animals or poisoning their food source. He keeps a crippled eagle with him and takes the eagle flying on a hang glider.

1. What does Lon's views on the suffering of animals say about the values he might hold? Use examples from "The Maze" and your own life to support your answer.

2. What do you think are the causes of people being cruel to the animals when it is not really necessary? Use examples from "The Maze" and your own life to support your answer.

3. What do you think should be the basic rights of animals, and the responsibility of humans to those animals? Use examples from "The Maze" and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think Eaters of the Dead is? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in "The Maze". Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of courage in the story. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?

3. Trace and analyze the theme of death in "The Maze". Consider the death of not just M4 and Rick's grandmother, but the death of the Rick's past, and how these events have affected him. Trace the point when Rick decides to let his past go and move forward.

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