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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. Where does U-Haul’s mother live?

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

4. In which of the following does June think Emmy lives?

5. What condition does Angus have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does June break up with Kent?

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

3. Why does Armstrong substitute in sixth grade?

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

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

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

7. How does Betsy negotiate not having a car?

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

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

10. Why had Demon not encountered Dori at school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the framing of the narrative. How does it function? How does it affect reading?

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

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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