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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 role is Molly playing in the school's Christmas play?

2. What two types of people does Molly discover in her new school?

3. What does Mr. Beers agree to do for Connie Pen?

4. What play is the class studying when Molly and Connie Pen come up with a plan to make their teacher like them?

5. What does Jennifer die from?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Connie want to be friends with Molly after she finds out about Molly's and Carolyn's homosexual relationship?

2. Why is it so important to Carrie that Molly play with girls like Cheryl Spiegelglass?

3. Why does Leota tell Molly that she never thinks about their homosexual experience?

4. What is surprising to Molly about Carrie's revelation about Molly's birth circumstances?

5. Why doesn't Molly think she and Holly could ever actually fall in love?

6. What are some of the reasons Leroy and Molly begin to grow apart in Part 2: Chapter 7?

7. What is Molly's view of marriage in Part 1: Chapter 4?

8. Why might Faye and Molly have decided to tell the two women they meet in a gay bar in Part 2: Chapter 10 that they are a couple?

9. What difference does Molly see in the way black people are treated in the south?

10. When Molly returns home to ask Carrie to help her with her senior film, what does she tell Carrie is the reason she didn't keep in contact over the years?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the places Molly lives affect her life? Do you think she would be a different person if she'd lived in other places? Why does Molly choose to move to New York? What perception of New York does she have that makes her move there? Was her perception accurate? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

How does Molly change from the beginning of the book to the end? Do her views of the world change? If so, how? If not, why? What are some of the major events that facilitate who Molly becomes as an adult?

Essay Topic 3

The use of labels for groups of people is a major theme in Rubyfruit Jungle. Molly abhors the use of labels, and yet she eventually begins to label people, too. What are some of the labels used in this book? What do the labels imply about the people they are used to describe? Why does Molly object to labeling? What causes her to begin using labels?

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