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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. From what city is Mouse?

2. What is Emmy’s birthstone?

3. With whom does Dori work?

4. How old is Dori when Demon begins to move in with her?

5. What team is Demon playing against when his knee is injured?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Angus begin to help Demon develop a look?

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

3. Why does Demon finish reading about Holden?

4. Why does the Winfield family not make much of Christmas?

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

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

7. Why does June break up with Kent?

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

9. How does Emmy explain June’s attraction to Kent?

10. What does Tommy do at the local newspaper?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Sources attest to the presence of Demon Copperhead on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

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