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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. When is T.C.'s story timeline set?

2. What is wrong with Ruby when Renard leaves?

3. How does T.C. decide to grow his plants?

4. What does Evelyn's mama warn her about when she is eating?

5. Who is T.C.'s daddy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when T.C. goes to visit Bon Bon?

2. Jackie wants time to process things according to her own set of values. What does this mean?

3. What did T.C. do when he lost his scholarship to LSU?

4. What state is T.C.'s mama in when he shows up after he is released from prison?

5. What is Evelyn's outlook on her pregnancy?

6. What does T.C. learn happened with his relatives while he was incarcerated?

7. What does T.C. hope to do with his life?

8. Why is Evelyn surprised that her mama is supportive of her pregnancy?

9. Why could T.C.'s mama not move out of her trailer?

10. Evelyn's daddy says she has a "low imagination" because she is settling. Why does this upset her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"Freedom and its expansive nature convinced you it could last forever" (69). Write an essay explaining how this rumination of T.C.'s does or does not affect the choices he makes when he is released from prison.

Essay Topic 2

Women are a larger part of the workforce in the 1986 story timeline. Write an essay expounding on what Jackie's father, Renard, means when he says that women are mad about not being able to mind their own children.

Essay Topic 3

"If you had to convince people who you were, it was too late" (65). Write an essay about this quote. Include who said it and what it means as well as where and why T.C. recalls it.

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