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

2. What article does Tommy show Demon?

3. What name is given to the chicken Dori gives Demon?

4. Which of the following is broken into in Pennington?

5. On what street do teenagers cruise in Pennington Gap?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Demon finish reading about Holden?

3. How does Dori’s mother die?

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

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

6. Why had Demon not encountered Dori at school?

7. What does Tommy do at the local newspaper?

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

9. What are the differences between grandfathers’ and grandmothers’ stories of working in coal?

10. Why does Demon look forward to his Backgrounds project?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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