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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. Who does Perry see in the car with Russ?

2. What is Russ’s wife’s name?

3. Russ saw Ambrose as understanding people on what level?

4. Clem’s girlfriend Sharon is what level grade student at college?

5. What does Laura Dobrinksy call Russ in relation to his ministering?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Becky go to Crossroads group meetings with first?

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

3. Why does Russ refuse to talk to Ambrose after Russ’s humiliation event?

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

5. What was Frances Cottrell’s marriage like to her husband before he died?

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

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

8. What happens when Marion tells her therapist, Sophie, about the abortion that Marion had tried to have when she was younger?

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

10. Why does Marion call Shirley’s acting insignificant, by referring to her as a “pretty face who memorized lines”?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay detailing the reasons why Marion released Russ to be happy on his own and pursue a relationship with Frances. Why was Marion happy that Russ was trying to have an affair with Frances?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on why Russ ran away from Frances when they were smoking marijuana in her kitchen, when she was obviously trying to get him in the mood to have sex. It was what Russ had said he had wanted from Frances, but why did he fail to have sex with her in her house, when given the chance? What did this say about Russ’s character and integrity?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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