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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. Russ saw Ambrose as understanding people on what level?
3. Who does Perry see in the car with Russ?
4. What is Russ’s wife’s name?
5. Becky’s friend Kim likes having sex at summer camp for what reason?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Clem feel that he has exhausted his relationship with Becky?
2. Why does Marion still feel obsessed with Bradley 30 years after their love affair?
3. What does Frances want to do with the marijuana she finds in Larry’s bedroom?
4. Why does Becky say that Shirley’s death was like that of Eleanor Rigby?
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. What was Frances Cottrell’s marriage like to her husband before he died?
7. Why does Marion still feel guilty for her father’s suicide?
8. Why did Russ not appreciate Marion’s loyalty to him in regard to her also not liking Ambrose?
9. Why does Perry say that he is “damned” at the Haefle party, when he gets caught getting drunk by his mother?
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 that states the reasons why Becky felt that she needed to leave her family and go to Europe on the money inheritance that she received from her dearly departed Aunt Shirley. How did her family feel about her wanting to go to Europe for the summer?
Essay Topic 2
Specify some ways the character of Judson could have been more developed in the novel. Not much is said about the youngest child Judson; why do you think the author made him such a minor character in the book? Why did he have him as a sibling at all as part of the Hildebrandt family?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay on two scenes where there are encounters with angels mentioned by a character in the novel. Do these characters believe that they saw real angels, or someone who just acted angelic towards the character experiencing the event in question?
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