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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. With whom does Dori work?

2. Who cuts Maggot’s hair?

3. What features as statues in front of Demon’s middle school?

4. What model car does Jane Ellen drive?

5. How much does Watts charge for an office visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the fate of the Crickson farm?

2. Why had Demon not encountered Dori at school?

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

4. How does Angus begin to help Demon develop a look?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of Demon Copperhead do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of Demon Copperhead. What in the text indicates as much? 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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