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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 is the first of the kids to arrive in the story What Can You Do With a General?

2. What does Ben try to give the driver in the story Menlo Park?

3. How does Ben find the guesthouse at Arthur's?

4. What does Alice want to do professionally?

5. Who is in the photograph that Arthur shows Ben of himself with?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ben struggling in his personal and professional life in the story Menlo Park?

2. Why does Ben ask Karen to come to help him at the guesthouse in the story Menlo Park?

3. In Son of Friedman, what is Benji's film like?

4. In Son of Friedman, what is George's relationship with Benji like?

5. In What Can You Do With a General, how does Sasha react to John's Christmas present?

6. What has Ben always privately believed he would be great at?

7. In the story Los Angeles, what does Alice think of the clothes at the store she works at?

8. Who does Ben keep calling and why does he keep calling this person in the story Menlo Park?

9. What is Ben hoping for from his meeting with Arthur in the story Menlo Park?

10. How does Alice start selling her used underwear to men?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Thora ultimately treat G so badly in the story A/S/L, fabricating a story about feeling unsafe in his presence at the rehab center? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What does Ben seem to attribute his own troubles in life, including both his personal and professional falls from grace, to? As a reader, how do you feel about Ben's assessment of his own set of circumstances? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Cline chooses to keep the details of Ben's possibly criminal behavior and transgressions hidden from the reader throughout the story Menlo Park? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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