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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 unique about the group of women Striker sees in the bowling alley in chapter 20?
2. What language does Irma sing in prior to beginning dinner in chapter 21?
3. What role does Striker imagine himself playing in the midst of a car accident at the end of chapter 22?
4. What item does the character in chapter 18 have in his backpack wrapped in bubble wrap?
5. What does Michael want to do for Gina in the early part of their relationship?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Michael forced to quit college after marrying Gina?
2. What does Striker see in the street in chapter 22? How does this make Striker feel?
3. How does the author draw parallels between Wanda Schultz and M.J. Striker in part two?
4. How does the author draw parallels between Striker and Irma concerning their painful pasts?
5. How does Striker feel about religion, as the reader learns in chapter 21?
6. Who is M.J. Striker and why has he come to work at the Aloha Lanes bowling alley in chapter 20?
7. What odd behaviors on the part of Gina Lorenzini does Michael O'Casey overlook due to his amorous feelings for her?
8. How does Wanda's knowledge of her parents' relationship compare with what Striker has revealed to the reader in part two of the novel?
9. Why does Michael leave his daughter and go in search of his missing wife in chapter 19?
10. What symbolic item is mentioned in chapter 18 that is related to a similar item symbolically important to Wanda Schultz?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does Margaret begin searching for the owner of the single tea cup her father stole from a Jewish child? How does Margaret find out the name of the owner? How does Margaret go about contacting the true owner? What does she learn about the owner? Who is the owner? How does this action bring Michael to Margaret's house? When does Wanda learn that Michael is her father? How does Michael learn the truth? How do they react to one another?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss one of the following relationships in detail, including ways in which they have changed as the novel's plot has progressed, using quotes from "Broken for You" to support your conclusions:
1) Wanda and Margaret
2) Wanda and Troy
3) Michael and Irma
4) Margaret and her roommates
Essay Topic 3
Wanda was adopted by her aunt and uncle. Examine this family. How does Wanda fit in with this surrogate family? How many siblings are there? Why does one of the children resent Wanda? How does Wanda feel about that? How did losing her parents impact Wanda? How has Wanda's past shaped her present? Why is Wanda so obsessed with her ex-lover? Why does Wanda believe the unsigned postcard is from her ex-lover?
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