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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 Word Babcock's line of work?

2. In which essay does Allen consider the appropriateness of behaviors based on one's stage of life?

3. What does Mr. Dubbs's brother warn his still-living siblings about?

4. What request does Job make of God toward the end of his story?

5. What role does Flossie play in this story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author state about a hunger strike?

2. What are some of the worries or anxieties that Woody shares in the opening section of the book?

3. Who is Kaiser Lupowitz?

4. What does the shepherd find in the caves and what do experts think of this discovery?

5. Who is Albert Sykes and what is his psychic phenomenon?

6. What is the third and final method civil disobedience the author describes and how is it described?

7. What is the story of the young woman and the housefly in "The Predators"?

8. How does Kaiser discover where the call girl service is based?

9. In "The Sacrifice" how does Man offend Nature? What must be done to appease Nature?

10. What ailment does Woody's nephew seem to have and what does this cause Woody to think of regarding Emily Dickinson's quote?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is an ethicist and what is ethicist writing? Please provide an example of ethicist type writing found in "Without Feathers" and what various characteristics or structure makes this section an example of ethicist writing.

Essay Topic 2

Please describe the structure of a plot and what a plot does. Define climax and anticlimax and provide an example of each from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Please define the role of tone in a literary work. How is tone conveyed in literature? Please provide three examples from the book of tone.

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