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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 this place?

2. What does Jimmy think about doing after he gets back from Crab's errand?

3. Where do Crab and Jimmy spend the night?

4. What does Crab receive from the person they encounter next?

5. Crab and Jimmy leave when Mavis goes where?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had Crab's plan for the night been?

2. What does Crab do when Jimmy gets back with the aspirin he asked him to get?

3. Where does Jimmy go to collect Crab, and how do they pass the night?

4. Where do Crab and Jimmy go after they secure a place to stay?

5. What are Jimmy's thoughts on returning to the room alone?

6. What response does Rydell make?

7. Where do Crab and Jimmy stop in Chicago?

8. What does Crab tell Jimmy about his own father?

9. What is Crab's reaction when Jimmy tells him that he called Mama Jean?

10. Where is Jimmy when he wakes up after some driving?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Crab's illness makes it impossible for him to play more than an episodic role in Jimmy's life. How else does his illness figure in the book? Is it a symbol or a metaphor? What does it symbolize? What clues does the author give us, that Crab's illness might mean more than just his individual sickness?

Essay Topic 2

How does Jimmy change over the course of the novel. What was he like in the beginning? What is he like in the end? What brings the change about?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways is Mama Jean a better parent than Crab? In what ways is she not? What does Crab teach Jimmy that Mama Jean could not, and vice versa?

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