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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. Which of the following do Demon and Angus put on a Christmas tree?

2. What team does Demon first play against after his injury?

3. Who is the first to have a cell phone?

4. To which of the following is Mr. Peg compared?

5. In what month did Demon’s father die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tommy do at the local newspaper?

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

3. Why does Armstrong substitute in sixth grade?

4. Why had Demon not encountered Dori at school?

5. How does Dori’s mother die?

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

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

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

9. How does Betsy negotiate not having a car?

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

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

To what genre other than coming-of-age narratives might Demon Copperhead be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Kingsolver’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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