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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. What does Marion want to be with Bradley now?

2. Who is Russ’s maternal grandfather?

3. Who does Marion go to confront on Maple Street, in an effort to punish Russ?

4. Where is Marion smoking in the house after Clem leaves, and when Russ gets back home?

5. Russ thinks Frances may be what, based on her new “hunger for new experiences”?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Frances tell Russ that she has to quit the Tuesday Circle group at the church?

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Charlie Durochie call Russ a nickname while he worked on the Navajo lands, and what was the story behind it?

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

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

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

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

Write an essay explaining the development of the relationship with siblings Clem and Becky. How did their close brother and sister relationship change to move them apart during the course of the novel? Why did Becky grow to hate Clem, and what brought them back together at the end of the novel?

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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