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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. Why did Ann need to find an apartment in Iowa City, Iowa?

2. Ann was accepted into the Fine Arts Work Center in which city?

3. Which fellowship did Lucy finally win?

4. In what country was Lucy born?

5. What caused a rift in Ann and Lucy's relationship?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Lucy upset about Ann's dating a poet while living in Kentucky?

2. What role did Ann represent in her friendship with Lucy?

3. What did Lucy's pulling out of the documentary symbolize for Lucy?

4. What did the fortune teller tell Lucy that devastated her?

5. How did Ann and Lucy view writing at this point in their lives?

6. How did Lucy's life change after the release of her award-winning book?

7. What role did Lucy represent in her friendship with Ann?

8. What is shared about Lucy's childhood in Chapter 3?

9. What did Lucy find strength in what made her consider writing non-fiction instead of fiction?

10. How did Lucy struggle in Bunting and then in Provincetown?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the role of women in the U.S. in the late twentieth century. What precedents did they feel compelled to follow? What restrictions did they have? What freedoms did they have that early twentieth century women did not have? How were Ann and Lucy like the average American woman? In what ways were they different from the average American woman? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the dynamic of Ann and Lucy's friendship. How did it evolve over time? Which role did Ann play? Which role did Lucy play? Did they ever challenge their respective roles? Or, were they content knowing who they were and what they each brought to the relationship?

Essay Topic 3

Ann and Lucy spend some time apart throughout the book to contemplate their lives. What do they think about? What conclusions do they arrive at? Explain why they seem to always be in a contemplative mood.

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