Throughout Ben's experience in the desert, he believes that this item is the key to beating Madec.
What is the jeep.
100
This is the powerful piece of evidence that frees Ben.
What is the slingshot?
100
Something that is likely to occur.
What is contingency?
100
When a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
100
Ben leaned back and stared up at the stars (51).
LEANED
What is a verb?
200
Ben believes that this will probably kill him before Madec does.
What is dehydration.
200
Madec proposes this to Ben as they approach town.
What is threatens Ben with prison time?
200
No longer used because something newer exists.
What is obsolete?
200
The perspective for which a story is told.
What is point of view.
200
Moving carefully, Ben let first one leg and then the other slip over the edge and hang as he pushed himself up...(89)
CAREFULLY
What is an adverb?
300
At the end of the novel, Ben does this when he is released.
What is makes a report on an accident.
300
Near Edwards Air Force Base
What is the novel's setting?
300
To pride or congratulate oneself on an achievement.
What is preened?
300
A character who does not change throughout the story.
What is a static character?
300
The slingshot pressed against him and was uncomfortable so he moved it away an inch and then, sitting up, began to scoop the sand in over himself...(136)
HIM
What is a pronoun?
400
People believe Madec's story over Ben's story for this reason.
What is Madec's story is simpler.
400
The chain.
What is the symbol of the connection between Ben and Madec?
400
Not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated.
What is implacable?
400
A struggle that occurs inside a person's mind.
What is an internal conflict?
400
With the dark tunnel behind them these holes might look to Madec like only dark splotches on the stone surface (109).
DARK
What is an adjective?
500
Ben gains control over Madec by doing this.
What is burning the tent? Or gaining control over Madec?
500
Velo-Drome
What is Ben's memory that helps him climb the butte?
500
friendly and easy to talk to
What is affable?
500
The narrator remains a detached observer, telling only the story's action and dialogue.