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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. Which of the following do Owen and George find inside Jimmy’s Place?

2. Which of the following animals does Owen note is native to the area around Churchill?

3. Of what are Patience’s earrings made?

4. Which of the following does the polar bear do after it leaves Jimmy’s Place with Owen and George on the roof?

5. With which of the following does Parts 6 begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Owen and George realize the polar bear that pursues them is doing when they cannot see it from the trap?

2. How does the novel describe horses’ vision?

3. Why does Patience rail against the vigilantes?

4. Per the novel, what is the eye of the hurricane?

5. How does the novel describe Akira’s second-degree burn (2248)?

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

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

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

9. What leads Owen to consider the ruination of Churchill?

10. Why does the area in which Patience lives rise above the storm water early on?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

To what genre other than thriller might Two Degrees be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

What character is the primary protagonist of Two Degrees? How does the novel support such an assertion?

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