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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 was the name of Maggot’s father?

2. After whose lunch does Demon hunger?

3. Which of the following is among Demon’s teachers?

4. Which of the following is Emmy’s father?

5. What career does Barks seek to pursue?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Demon obliged to catch a school bus on the side of the highway?

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

5. Why does Demon decline to remind Maggot of his birthday?

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

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

8. What symptoms of nicotine poisoning does Demon display?

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

10. How do the McCobbs know Demon pilfers food?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Kingsolver’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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