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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. Which of the following taught Demon math?

2. What career does Barks seek to pursue?

3. What is the name of Stoner’s dog?

4. What make of motorcycle does Stoner ride?

5. On what day does the Crickson farm lose water?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a young Demon posit is the reason teenage boys want their own vehicles?

2. Why does Demon not eat in the hospital when his mother is hospitalized?

3. What benefit does Demon perceive to not having cousins?

4. Why does Demon believe he cannot drown?

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

6. Why do farmers where Demon lives plow with mules?

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

8. Why is Demon not to be reassigned to Crickson after leaving the McCobbs?

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

10. How does Maggot get his nickname?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 2

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

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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