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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 mother?

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

3. In what industry had Mr. Peg been injured?

4. On what highway do Demon and Stoner share a final meal?

5. At which school does Mr. McCobb report having studied?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Demon know he reaches Murder Valley on a Sunday?

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

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

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

6. What symptoms of nicotine poisoning does Demon display?

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

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

9. In the novel, what is a joree bath?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of Demon Copperhead do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 3

The protagonist remarks that “A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing. If you get past that and grown, it’s easiest to forget about the misery and pretend you knew all along what you were doing. Assuming you’ve ended up someplace you’re proud to be. And if not, easier to forget the whole thing, period” (7). Does the novel support or belie the remarks? What in the novel shows as much, and how does it do so?

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