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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. Marion remembers her mother’s social status as being what?
2. How does Marion reference the physical attributes of her psychiatrist?
3. Russ saw Ambrose as understanding people on what level?
4. Becky’s friend Kim likes having sex at summer camp for what reason?
5. The novel Crossroads begins in what city?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when Marion tells her therapist, Sophie, about the abortion that Marion had tried to have when she was younger?
2. What does Sally say to Ambrose, that Russ told her about Russ’s marriage?
3. How is Judson treated as a character in the novel?
4. What does Frances want to do with the marijuana she finds in Larry’s bedroom?
5. 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?
6. Why does Clem feel that he has exhausted his relationship with Becky?
7. What is the “humiliation” that Russ suffered on the first mission trip to Arizona with the Crossroads group of teens?
8. Why does Marion still feel obsessed with Bradley 30 years after their love affair?
9. Why does Marion call Shirley’s acting insignificant, by referring to her as a “pretty face who memorized lines”?
10. Why did Perry and other teenagers at the Haefle party sneak and drink the adult vodka mixed drink gløgg?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay about how for her whole life, Marion was jealous of her sister Shirley and her laissez-faire or casual perspective of men. By the end of the novel, Marion had the same ideas as Shirley in regard to Marion’s ideas of the worth of men in a woman’s life. Focus on the life events that changed Marion to become more like the carefree sister Shirley whom she never appreciated when she was alive.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay on why you think that the author named the book Crossroads, as well as what type of crossroads the main characters faced in their lives in the course of the book.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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