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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 Ernest do that causes the narrator to criticize him for thinking he is "clever" (18)?
2. Whose idea is it to make the boat out of barrels?
3. The title of Chapter 9 is "A Growing Menagerie." What is a menagerie?
4. When Fritz suggests that they make a basin at the stream, what material does the narrator say they will need?
5. What kind of animals are Turk and Juno?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Ernest finds oysters and salt, what is the narrator's response?
2. How does the family observe their first Sabbath together?
3. When the narrator wakes Ernest early, what is his reasoning, and how does Ernest respond?
4. How does the family end up on a deserted island?
5. In Chapter 4, "Back to the Wreck," how does Elizabeth react when Jack and Ernest fail to shoot the birds when they are traveling through the tall grass?
6. What jobs does Elizabeth take on from the time of the shipwreck onward?
7. What problem occurs when the family tries to launch their barrel boat, and how do they solve it?
8. In Chapter 8, "The Pinnace," what do Elizabeth and the narrator disagree about, and what is the outcome of their disagreement?
9. In Chapter 7, "Bread," what happens as a result of Ernest's discovery of manioc root?
10. When the narrator and Fritz go exploring for the first time and are walking through the grass, what animal surprises them, and how do they react?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In what way does this novel illustrate the values of the author's culture? Use both textual evidence and outside sources to analyze the novel as a reflection of late-eighteenth-century Swiss values. Cite your sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
This book was originally composed as a series of stories and then later compiled into a novel. Write an essay in which you analyze the impact this origin has had on the book's overall structure and effect on the reader.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze the novel's narrative voice: how does it characterize the narrator, how would you describe the narrator's language, and how does it impact the reader's experience of the story?
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