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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 is the author’s wife?

2. What kind of restaurant does Natalie find while walking Beatriz’s dog?

3. Which of the following does Akira note losing to the fire?

4. What reveals a familiar landmark to Owen and George?

5. With which of the following do the Parts 4 begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why must Akira’s family flee their home on horse?

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

3. Why does Lars assert his house is safe from fire?

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

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

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

7. How does the novel define a firebreak?

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

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

10. What, in the novel, is a “polar bear welcome mat” (2339)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Conversely, which of Akira, George, Owen, and Natalie gains the most? What in the text shows as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Assuming that Two Degrees should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

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