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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 the fight start between Laura and Becky?

2. What city does Russ remember growing up in as a boy?

3. What city does Clem go to instead of going back by bus to his girlfriend?

4. Why is Frances avoiding talking to Russ, after their sexual tension starts to fade?

5. When Russ falls in love with Marion, he starts to hate her because of what reason regarding her sexual past?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the “experiment” that Frances wants to do with Russ?

2. Explain how Russ’s relationship with Rick Ambrose goes from love, to hate to love over the course of the novel.

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

4. What does Marion say to Clem when he says that he is going into the military to go to the Vietnam War?

5. Why did Russ feel that he was a failure sexually to Frances?

6. What kind of relationship does Russ have with his favorite daughter Becky?

7. How did Russ use Larry to find out about how serious Frances was with her boyfriend?

8. What embarrassing event happened to Russ at the Navajo dancing ceremony?

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

10. Why does Becky have an argument with Clem regarding Tanner?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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