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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 original name of Golly’s Market?

2. On what road does Demon’s grandmother live?

3. Who made the birdhouses outside the Peggot home?

4. How many years is Maggot’s mother’s prison sentence?

5. What song do Demon and Barks sing together?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Demon’s idea for Earthly Bads?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Demon Copperhead? By which groups? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of Demon Copperhead. What in the text indicates as much? 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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