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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 Laura's older sister?

2. Where did Maria Giuseppe Benedetto move her children to a cramped tenement apartment after arriving in New York?

3. Where did Uncle Old go to buy cocaine from Dominican distributors in order to make crack?

4. What New York Senator denounced the Brooklyn Arms for its degradation, as cited by the author in Chapter 7?

5. What did Maurice's grandmother give him as a gift for his sixth birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the crack epidemic refer to? When did this epidemic begin and end?

2. Where did Laura work when she met Maurice? What did her job entail?

3. How is Uncle Dark described?

4. What led Laura to go to the Bryant? What did she discover when she arrived?

5. How does Laura describe the dual nature of her father?

6. How did Maurice respond when Laura lectured him about punctuality?

7. What jobs did Nunziato Carino start out with as a teen? How did his career progress?

8. What is the Brooklyn Arms and when did Maurice live there?

9. What did Maurice tell Laura that his mother did all day when she first asked?

10. Who is Morris? How is he described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss Darcella. Where was Darcella born? What was her family like growing up? What led Darcella to a life of drugs? How did Darcella die?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the narrative style of An Invisible Thread. From what perspective is the narrative related? Does the author provide commentary outside of the main narrative? If so, how is this commentary presented?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Laura's parents. What was their heritage? Where did they live? What did Laura's mother and father do for a living? What were the family finances like?

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