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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. At the diner party, after the food fight with Robin, Buddy describes his retreat as what?

2. How does Bellocq try to get Webb to leave?

3. What does Bellocq think Buddy does?

4. Buddy dreams of slashing customers' ______ throats.

5. In the barbershop, what gets in everything?

Short Essay Questions

1. Can Buddy trust people?

2. Is Dude Botley superstitious about hymns? How?

3. How does Buddy feel about John Robichaux?

4. In Chapter 2, how does Buddy act crazy?

5. What is the image of scrambling over barbed wire meant to portray?

6. What is Buddy's relationship with Bellocq like?

7. How is generational conflict used in Chapter 2?

8. Does Buddy have good self-esteem? How?

9. At the end of Chapter 2, is a new crisis inevitable? Why?

10. While photographing prostitutes, how involved is Bellocq in his work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many of the primary characters in "Coming Through Slaughter" are musicians. Music weaves itself into all their lives and into the narrative. Discuss the use of music in the book and how it influences characters and the narrative.

Essay Topic 2

Buddy is concerned with not mimicking the failure of his musical ancestors but becoming greater than them. However, at the end, no one remembers him. Discuss the theme of the battle of generations in "Coming Through Slaughter."

Essay Topic 3

Buddy is very concerned with his hands. He is terrified of loosing them but does little to take care of them. Discuss Buddy's preoccupation with his hands. What do they represent? What do they mean to him? What is the symbolism of this?

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