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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 Agatha studying in college?

2. Who does Daphne see at the bar after she's gone to the resume shop?

3. What grade did Sister Harriet teach?

4. Who brought home a saltcellar shaped like a robot?

5. What does Ian find in Lucy's jewelry box?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it significant that Ian discovers Lucy's jewelry box with her important papers?

2. Describe Ian's uneasiness with Daphne and Gideon's relationship.

3. What is the weather in the spring of 1988?

4. What does Daphne hang on the wall in the living room with the other family pictures?

5. Why does Doug want to keep particular items of Bee's when the children are cleaning out the house?

6. Describe Eli Everjohn.

7. Why does Agatha refuse to go to church once she's fifteen?

8. What does Ian discover when he visits Mrs. Millet?

9. Describe Agatha's appearance when she returns for Thanksgiving after her mother has died.

10. What clothes does Daphne choose to wear to the dinner party?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Did Ian make the wrong choice to tell Danny his suspicions about Lucy? How does he avoid interfering in people's lives after Danny's death?

Essay Topic 2

What kind of person is Agatha? Do you think she had a difficult life, and how did her life shape her as a person?

Essay Topic 3

What kind of person is Rita? How does she influence the Bedloe household in positive ways? Does she help make the Bedloe family extraordinary again?

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