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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 month does Chapter 15 begin?

2. In the conclusion of Chapter 14, Thatcher says to Carruth's family, "Men like your father may have" what (384)?

3. Where is the architecture specialist from that Chris has arranged to assess Willa's home in Chapter 15?

4. Who has driven Mary and Thatcher to the Pine Barrens in Chapter 18?

5. Whose family is described in Chapter 11 as "a big, loyal household of parentless siblings holding it all together" (290)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where are Thatcher and Mary in Chapter 18? How is the setting described?

2. Who is Uri Carruth and how does Thatcher come to know him?

3. About what do Jorge and Zeke argue in Chapter 17?

4. How have the living/sleeping arrangements in Willa's house changed in Chapter 11? Why?

5. What important information does Thatcher learn from Carruth in Chapter 10?

6. How does the debate conclude in Chapter 12?

7. What are Willa's future plans at the end of her narrative in Chapter 17?

8. What is being celebrated in Chapter 17? How is the celebration described?

9. What are the principles Thatcher presents in his opening for the debate in Chapter 12?

10. What does Thatcher learn from Willis and Selma in Chapter 14?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Willa's relationship with her daughter Tig evolves throughout the novel. How would you describe their relationship in the beginning? How does this relationship change? What leads to the changes in the relationship? Do you think that their relationship grows stronger or more distant? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the characters of Zeke and Tig in Unsheltered. How old are these characters and what is their age difference? How were they different growing up? How are they different now? To which character do you most relate? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the marriage of Thatcher and Rose in the novel. For how long have these characters been married at the onset of the novel? Where did they meet? How does their relationship change in the course of the narrative?

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