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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. How does Russ think that Frances feels about him, after they agree to meet to smoke pot together?

2. Which filter option does Marion buy on her cigarettes?

3. Russ and Frances go where to find Clyde, to make peace with the Navajos after they destroyed the mission group property?

4. What did the landlord do when Marion came to Isabelle’s apartment?

5. What is the nickname Frances and Russ call their mutual sexual tension?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Russ feel when Marion rejects him in bed for the first time?

2. Why does Marion want to confess her unrequited love of Bradley to her son Perry?

3. Why does Clem hate Russ for not going to war when he was at an age to do so?

4. Where did Russ go instead of joining the military in the World War I, in 1944?

5. What signal does Russ get that Frances is lusting in her heart for him as he is lusting after her?

6. What does Marion say to Russ when he finds her in their kitchen smoking a cigarette?

7. Why does Russ’s father never forgive Russ’s grandfather Opa Clement?

8. Who sees Tanner kissing Becky in Tanner’s van? What does this character do with this information?

9. Why does Marion keep her father’s suicide away from her kids?

10. Where does Russ get his morals and values from his upbringing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that lists all of the illegal actions of Perry throughout the book. Why did his parents never punish him or intervene, even when they caught him selling drugs to school-aged children? Be specific.

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

Identify the reasons that Marion felt that she had been an angel and a devil at different times in her life. Be specific in detailing the events that made her feel good and bad about her actions in relation to other people in her past.

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