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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 the name of Roy's biological father?
2. What did Andre's father give him when he graduated college?
3. What does Walter give Roy instead of money, according to Roy's letter to Celestial in Part One: "Bridge Music"?
4. What is Uncle Banks's first name?
5. What is the name of the hotel where Roy and Celestial stayed when visiting his parents on Labor Day weekend?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where did Roy study? What career does he set out on after college?
2. How does Andre describe his feelings for Celestial in high school?
3. How does Andre justify his relationship with Celestial in his first monologue in Part Two: "Prepare a Table for Me"?
4. What is the inciting event in An American Marriage?
5. Why do you think the author gives Andre his own first-person narrative?
6. Where is Celestial from? How is this setting described?
7. How does Roy describe Walter when he first becomes his cell mate?
8. What is revealed to the reader through the epistolary form in Part One: "Bridge Music"?
9. How does Celestial respond to Andre's proposal?
10. Who is Sylvia? What role does she play in the narrative in Part One: "Bridge Music"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the characters of Big Roy and Walter Jenkins. What is each character's relationship like with Roy? How does each character feel about Roy and how does he express those feelings?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze and discuss the character of Roy in An American Marriage. How old is Roy? Where is he from? Where did he attend college? What career did he enter into? What led to Roy's arrest? How does the arrest change Roy's life?
Essay Topic 3
Outline and discuss the plot structure of An American Marriage. Where in the novel do the following occur: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement? How does the novel progress chronologically? Does the author make use of flashbacks or flash-forwards?
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