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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. Becky is in what grade at high school?

2. Who opens the door at Isabelle’s apartment, when Marion goes there for help being pregnant?

3. Clem misunderstands religion and calls it what?

4. Who does Perry see in the car with Russ?

5. When Bradley breaks up with Marion, he tells her she was what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Perry want to join the Crossroads group, and why does Ambrose tell Becky he disapproves of Perry joining?

2. Marion always said that Shirley had no use for women, and only wanted men in her life. How does Marion end up being the same way in her own life?

3. What is the reason Ronnie’s mother becomes so angry with Frances for drawing with her son Ronnie?

4. What happens to Sharon when Clem breaks up with him?

5. Why do Frances and Russ ignore Pastor Theo Crenshaw’s advice to leave the neighborhood boy Ronnie alone?

6. Why does Marion still feel obsessed with Bradley 30 years after their love affair?

7. What is the “humiliation” that Russ suffered on the first mission trip to Arizona with the Crossroads group of teens?

8. Why does Perry say that he is “damned” at the Haefle party, when he gets caught getting drunk by his mother?

9. What does Frances want to do with the marijuana she finds in Larry’s bedroom?

10. Why does Marion believe that her “acting had mesmerized Bradley Grant,” and does this make her more like her actress sister Shirley?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay regarding how Marion changed and developed after her weekly psychiatrist sessions with Sophie. In flashbacks, what did Marion learn about herself by talking to a psychiatrist every week about her past life?

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

Develop an argument that explains why Clem felt that he needed to quit college and join the military to go fight in the Vietnam War. Who influenced Clem to feel this way? How did his family react when he told him that he wanted to go to war instead of stay in college?

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