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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. At which of the following does Demon get a job?

2. What article does Tommy show Demon?

3. What is the jersey number of the player who injures Demon?

4. What is Demon’s jersey number?

5. What does Demon note having eaten after it went through a washing machine?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dick spend his childhood in an institution?

2. Why does Demon do cocaine at Mouse’s?

3. Why does June break up with Kent?

4. In the novel, what does the term “smurfing” refer to?

5. What is the general reaction to the September 11 attacks where Demon lives?

6. Why does Demon find himself missing his mother when he arrives at the Winfield home?

7. Why had Demon not encountered Dori at school?

8. Why does Demon begin to draw a comic strip for the local newspaper?

9. What does Tommy do at the local newspaper?

10. How does Betsy negotiate not having a car?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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