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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 is a charity group in Demon’s home area?

2. What does Demon give to Haillie when he leaves the McCobb home?

3. In what county is Demon’s mother buried?

4. Where does Stoner intend to move after Demon’s mother dies?

5. To which of the following is June compared?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Demon believe he cannot drown?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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