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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 the symbol for the rally?

2. Which of the following does Natalie use to get to Patience’s apartment?

3. Which of the following does Akira have in her saddlebags?

4. How do Patience and Natalie address the passed storm?

5. Which of the following does Owen cite as a local landmark?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do polar bear traps work in the novel?

2. Why does Natalie question whether she can resume her friendship with Shannon?

3. How does George’s father make a living after losing his job at the port?

4. What urges Natalie to seek shelter with Patience?

5. Why does Patience rail against the vigilantes?

6. What preparations does Patience say should have been made before the storm came?

7. To what does the novel liken a first-degree burn?

8. Why does Owen rush to save the polar bear?

9. Why does the restauranteur Natalie encounters hesitate to open her freezer?

10. Why does Akira initially wonder if the plane she sees overhead is lost?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of Two Degrees. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does Two Degrees bear as much out?

Essay Topic 3

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Two Degrees? By which groups? Why?

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