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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 does *Armstrong* play?

2. In what month does Dori’s father die?

3. Who normally addresses repairs and maintenance at the Winfield home?

4. Whose words does Dick ink onto a kite?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Demon finish reading about Holden?

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

3. Why does Demon charge his classmates extra to draw faces and hands?

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

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

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

7. What is Dori’s father’s reported cause of death?

8. What does Tommy do at the local newspaper?

9. What withdrawal symptoms does Demon suffer leading up to homecoming?

10. Why does June break up with Kent?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of Demon Copperhead. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that Demon Copperhead should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

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