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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. In what town does Mr. Golly live?

2. With which of the following does the novel open?

3. From which of the following is the epigraph taken?

4. What soda does Demon’s mother prefer?

5. What name does Fast Forward bestow on Demon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What symptoms of nicotine poisoning does Demon display?

2. Why does the narrator note he was unlikely to survive birth?

3. Why does Demon not remember many of his caseworkers’ names?

4. How do the McCobbs know Demon pilfers food?

5. How does Fast Forward justify defrauding the other foster-children at the Crickson farm?

6. How does Tommy typically avert the mistake of wasting water?

7. Why does Mr. Golly make much of handing people food?

8. Why are no charges pressed against Stoner for his treatment of Demon?

9. What shocks Demon most about his mother’s appearance at her funeral?

10. Why does Maggot’s mother refuse to seek help from her parents?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. How might the novel be sectioned off other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?

Essay Topic 2

How does the novel define family? What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

How reliable is the narrator of the novel? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

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