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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. How tall is George Goddard?

2. In what city did George live?

3. What was Hugh staring at at three p.m.?

4. What was the name of the man who tried to kill Joy's mother, and who Joy stabbed with a knife?

5. How old was Lil when she started doing her own hair?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Louie Ward become an obstetrician?

2. How did George learn how to manage his daughter's hair?

3. Why was Beth under arrest in a hospital?

4. What is said about Bex's work?

5. What did Hugh remember happened when Wren was two?

6. What did Izzy remember about being poor?

7. What has caused places like the Center to go out of business?

8. What does George do after he lets Wren go?

9. Why did Mandy have an abortion?

10. Why did Wren's father never go into space?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Wren thinks of herself as a woman when she decides to have sex and get birth control. In what ways is Wren still a little girl? How does Wren realize what makes an adult? Why does she realize it is not sex? What does she realize makes an adult?

Essay Topic 2

When Bex is treated after being released from the Center, she is told she is lucky. Why does Bex not think that she is lucky? Why does she believe karma has influenced her release? What is the difference between luck and karma.

Essay Topic 3

Bex had been like a mother to Wren. Does Wren miss her mother? Why does she believe that Bex has taken her mother’s place? How does Bex treat Wren? Are there times when she acts like a mother to Wren? How would you describe the relationship between Wren and Bex?

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