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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 type of classes did one of the potential applicants for Margaret's roommate did the woman want to hold in the house?

2. Why does Wanda resist Troy's advances in chapter 16?

3. Who features prominently in Margaret's dream in chapter 17?

4. What item does the author suggest you might pick up off a desk in the prologue?

5. What is Creative Visualization?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Margaret Hughes decide to get a roommate? Who does she need to consult first?

2. How is Daniel Hughes killed? What happens to Margaret in the aftermath of his death?

3. What does Margaret think she hears Wanda doing in the bathroom during their initial interview? Why does Wanda do this?

4. Why does Margaret insist on allow Wanda to use her car? Why does Wanda hesitate?

5. Why do Margaret and Wanda begin breaking plates in chapter 13? What is the purpose?

6. Why does the author introduce a dream that both Wanda and Margaret are having in chapter 7?

7. What is significant about the day Margaret's mother died? What happens to Margaret in the aftermath of her mother's death?

8. Who does Margaret take to the opening night of Wanda's play? What does Margaret give to Wanda after the play is over?

9. For what reason does Margaret decide to invite another person to live in her house? What is this new roommate's profession?

10. What was life like for Wanda when she lived with the Schultz family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Gina? Why does she marry Michael? Why does she insist that she cannot have children? What happens when she does have a child? How does Michael respond to his wife's inability to deal with their child? How does Michael respond when Gina leaves him and his daughter? Why did Michael put his entire life on hold for this one woman? Where has his search for Gina taken Michael? To which character does Michael's obsession with his wife compare? How do they compare?

Essay Topic 2

What happened to Margaret's mother? When did she die? Why does Margaret begin to see her mother? What role did her mother play in Margaret's life when she was a child? Now, as Margaret is an adult? What does it say about Margaret's health that she is seeing dead people? What does it say about her state of mind? Why does Margaret see her mother? Why does she not see her father or others who have died in her life?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following themes in detail, using quotes from "Broken for You" to support your conclusions:

1) Friendship

2) Grief and Loss

3) War Atrocities

4) Family.

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