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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. When did Esau die?

2. How old was Isaac when Rachel started drinking?

3. How many family members did Elliott have in his family?

4. Where was Jake's Juke Joint located?

5. What color was Jacob's grandfather's coffin?

Short Essay Questions

1. In 1974, why did Jacob throw away Isaac's action figurines?

2. What was the Tuskegee syphilis experiment?

3. When did Jacob's grandmother die, and how did life go on?

4. How did Jacob feel when Isaac was born?

5. How and when did Esau die?

6. When and how did Jacob's grandfather die, and how does Jacob feel?

7. How was Jacob educated?

8. What book did Rachel read that changed her and what did Jacob think of the book?

9. What were men and women's roles in the 1960s?

10. What did Jacob remember about Isaac playing the piano?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The tensions between Jacob and Rachel caused strained family dynamics. How would you describe the dynamics between Jacob, Rachel, and Isaac? Why were they strained?

Essay Topic 2

Jacob referred to his brother Esau as his "favorite person in the world" (21). How would you describe the relationship between Jacob and Esau? Why was Jacob so devastated by Esau’s death?

Essay Topic 3

Jacob was taught by his grandfather and society that to be a man was to be authoritarian. How did reading change Jacob’s conception of what it meant to be a man?

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