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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. Where is Isabelle when Marion goes to see her friend, to possibly get help when Marion is pregnant?
2. What is the name of the customer Bradley cheats out of the price of a car?
3. What two holy men talk about God to Perry at the Haefle party?
4. What famous poet does Clem refer to his love for Sharon?
5. When Clem was growing up, he says that his father used to yell at him but did not do what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to Sharon when Clem breaks up with him?
2. Why does Perry say that he is “damned” at the Haefle party, when he gets caught getting drunk by his mother?
3. Why does Clem feel that he has exhausted his relationship with Becky?
4. What effect does the author present by mentioning Russ’s “humiliation” in the early pages of the book, but not explaining what happened for several hundred pages into the reading?
5. Why does Marion still feel guilty for her father’s suicide?
6. Why is Russ upset that Frances calls Ambrose a “genius” for his work with the church teen group Crossroads?
7. Why do Frances and Russ ignore Pastor Theo Crenshaw’s advice to leave the neighborhood boy Ronnie alone?
8. Why does Marion believe that her “acting had mesmerized Bradley Grant,” and does this make her more like her actress sister Shirley?
9. What does Sally say to Ambrose, that Russ told her about Russ’s marriage?
10. How is Judson treated as a character in the novel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay exploring how Russ’s early years as a Mennonite helped to shape his ideas of forgiveness of sin for himself and for his wife Marion, who was raised as a Catholic.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that recalls all of the reasons that Perry gives to show that he is doomed, and that his life has little hope of getting better.
Essay Topic 3
Compose an essay that explains the details of Russ’s humiliation, focusing on what happened, what characters were involved in the event, and what was the aftermath of the humiliation on Russ’s work as a pastor, his family and his life in general.
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