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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. In what condition is the first classmate Rod sees on the unknown planet?
2. What is the name of Rod's school?
3. How do Rod and Jack break the fever of the person they discovered in a tree in Chapter 6?
4. What is the name of Jack's personal knife?
5. What unit of currency does Rod spend while watching the travelers at Emigrants' Gap?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who does the "dead" student in the tree turn out to be?
2. What hunting technique do Rod and Jack develop together?
3. Why has Rod's sister, Helen, returned home to be with the family in Chapter 2?
4. Why does Helen advise Rod not to carry a gun during his survival final exam on an unknown planet?
5. At the end of Chapter 7, who joins Rod, Jack, and Jimmy in their cave settlement?
6. What shocking secret does Jimmy reveal to Rod, regarding Jack?
7. What major setback does Rod suffer at the conclusion of Chapter 3?
8. Where does Rod believe he and the other students have been abandoned?
9. What sort of test does the main character, Rod Walker, contemplate taking at the beginning of "Tunnel in the Sky," and what is his reaction to learning that the test is eminent?
10. Why do Rod, Jack, and Jimmy decide to signal other students to join their group?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Near the end of the novel when officials from Terra arrive to rescue the students, why is Rod the only one who wishes to stay on the new planet? Why are the other students so anxious to leave, even though many had previously stated that they would never want to return home? What irresistible attractions draw them home, that could never be replicated in Cowpertown?
Essay Topic 2
What do the cliff dwellings discovered by Rod and Roy in Chapter 11 signify? What does the beach of bones discovered by the same two characters signify? How do the two characters react to their discoveries? How do the beach of bones and they cliff dwellings amplify the sense of abandonment felt by the students on the unknown planet?
Essay Topic 3
What elements must be present in order for a novel to be classified as science fiction? How do descriptions early in the novel lead the reader into the world of "Tunnel in the Sky," creating the situations and showcasing the technologies necessary for the plot to develop? What is the author's attitude regarding the technologies he imagines in this world?
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