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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. Where did Parker propose to Izzy?

2. Where does Joy live?

3. How long did Harriet tell Olive she might have to live?

4. What was the temperature when George arrived at the clinic?

5. What was the name of the girl with pink hair who ran out of the Center when the shooting began?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was a witness to the first shootings and escaped the clinic?

2. What music did Joy listen to while she was in the recovery room and why?

3. What were problems that Izzy was able to solve?

4. How had Aunt Bex been a mother to Wren?

5. How did Hugh describe fatherhood?

6. Why should Hugh have recused himself after he learned that Wren was a hostage?

7. What story did Louie tell Joy?

8. What had Wren learned last week when she was listening to NPR in Aunt Bex's studio?

9. Why did Wren punch at boy when she was four, and what did her father do about it?

10. At noon, what did Izzy see when she looked in a supply closet?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hugh and George are both single fathers who love their daughters very much. What do George and Hugh have in common? What makes them different? How have experiences made the men who they are?

Essay Topic 2

The author shares several parent/child relationships in the novel. What are some examples of parent/child relationships in the novel? How does the author use parent/child relationships to explore the different forms that those relationships can take?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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