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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where did Lee attend college?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Brown University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Yale University.
2. Where is Poe taken after he is booked and fingerprinted in Book Two?
(a) Uniontown.
(b) Montgomery.
(c) Bakersfield.
(d) Delancey.
3. Who is Lee's husband?
(a) Henry.
(b) Simon.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Harris.
4. What is Isaac's father's former profession?
(a) He was a steelworker.
(b) He was a professor.
(c) He was a butcher.
(d) He was a coal miner.
5. What is the name of Poe's father?
(a) Otto.
(b) Murray.
(c) Bud.
(d) Virgil.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whom does Isaac kill at the car factory?
2. How does Lee describe her marriage in Book One?
3. What is the white supremacist group that Isaac surmises Daryl is a member of in Book Two?
4. What is Poe's intention in going to the woods in the beginning of Book Two?
5. How much money has Issac stolen from his father in Book One?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when Harris confronts Poe in the woods in Book Two?
2. What takes place in Grace Poe's narrative in Book Two?
3. Describe the murder in Book One. What leads up to the murder?
4. Where do Isaac and Poe encounter the three drifters in Book One? Who are the drifters and how are they described?
5. What is revealed through the encounter between Harris and Poe while Poe is in a holding cell in Book Two?
6. Where does Isaac plan to travel in Book One? Why?
7. In Book Two, the language surrounding Isaac's narrative begins to transition. What purpose does this transition serve?
8. What secrets are revealed in Book Two? How do these secrets serve the plot?
9. What symbolism surrounds the murder that occurs in Book One of American Rust?
10. How is the character of Billy Poe described in Book One? What are his circumstances in the beginning of the novel?
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