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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. Where do the women assemble for their meeting?

2. What do the women drink after the photographer leaves?

3. Why does Canoe take the women and their daughters downtown?

4. What did Louise name her daughter in deference to her husband's wishes?

5. Which of the following did not set a precedent for Viv's life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the women discuss about the properties of words and lines they read?

2. How does the group meeting at the hospice end on this day?

3. Why are the women meeting at the hospice?

4. How does Viv reconcile leaving school and getting married?

5. How did Viv sell herself out by giving in to societal norms?

6. What does Louise share about Him trying to escape from the Center?

7. Why does the photographer leave and then return?

8. Why will the women spend Christmas at the hospice?

9. What is the setting of this section?

10. What is the setting for this section?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Create a brief character study on Esther. What does she look like? What are her positive personality traits? What are some of her negative characteristics? What are her hopes and fears? What motivates her--if anything--at this point in her life?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the overall setting for the novel. Why does Walbert use the setting she does? What is the time period of the story? How important is the time period to the attitudes and issues of the characters?

Essay Topic 3

In "Intervention" the author writes, "We have seen a lot, it's true, but know so little. How were we to learn? Years ago we were led down the primrose lane, then abandoned somewhere near the carp pond. Suffice it to say there is little nourishment here and the carp have grown strange cancers. When we look in their pond we see them beneath our own watery faces." What does the author want the reader to take away from these statements? What is your interpretation of the statements? Explain.

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