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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. Where does Coach Winfield note having met his late wife?

2. What model car does Jane Ellen drive?

3. Where is Tommy’s girlfriend located?

4. With whom does Dori work?

5. Who is the school janitor?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Angus deny that Demon’s selection as homecoming king is a pity vote?

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

5. What does Annie tell Demon every teacher hopes to see?

6. Why does June break up with Kent?

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

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

9. What is the fate of the Crickson farm?

10. What does Tommy do at the local newspaper?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Readerly attention focuses on the comment that “If you’re standing on a small pile of shit, fighting for your one place to stand, God almighty how you fight” (103). To what degree does Demon Copperhead affirm that comment? How does the text indicate the extent of affirmation?

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

At one point, Demon observes that “It’s safer knowing more about people than they know about you” (200). Is the observation accurate? What in the novel and in your experience suggests as much? How does it do so?

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