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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 highway does Demon take to run away?

2. What career does Barks seek to pursue?

3. Where does the preacher preach who first gives Demon a ride?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What gift does June get Demon the Christmas after his mother dies?

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

4. How do the McCobbs know Demon pilfers food?

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

6. How does Maggot get his nickname?

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

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

9. How does Demon react to his mother telling him he is her reason for getting sober?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Much is made of the connection between Kingsolver’s novel and the work of Charles Dickens. In what ways does Kingsolver echo Dickens in the present novel? Does it improve or hinder the reading that she does or does not? How so?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

To what genre other than coming-of-age narratives might Demon Copperhead be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

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