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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. How does Eden let Andrew know that she will leave with him after she told him about Jim?

2. How does Eden warn Andrew that Edith entered the bedroom?

3. Where does Andrew convince Eden to go when he takes her outside and lifts her over the broken porch step?

4. Who told DeSalvo the story about the night of the shooting after Edith tried to kill Eden for the second time?

5. What are Andrew and T.J. fixing up at the end of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Andrew feel about the baby he and Eden are expecting?

2. Where did Edith go after she tried to shoot Eden?

3. What information does Eden reveal when Andrew persists in learning more about who she had been with in her bedroom before?

4. Why does Andrew buy Eden sneakers?

5. What does Andrew plan to do after he and Eden leave his mother's house?

6. What important news does T.J. give Andrew when he calls to check on selling the house?

7. Describe T.J.'s home.

8. How does Eden respond when Andrew asks her to leave with him?

9. How does DeSalvo protect Eden in the luncheonette?

10. What does Edith intend when she comes into Eden's room when Eden and Andrew are making love?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What kind of relationship did Andrew and Eden have most of their lives? How did Eden act on her feelings as a teen, but was rejected by Andrew? What is Andrew's response to her when he returns for his mother's funeral and sees her for the first time in nineteen years? Provide specific examples to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Eden's arrival at the Closes' and Jim and Edith's reaction. In what way did Edith pretend to want the baby for the sake of her relationship with her husband? What were the consequences of that pretense? Quote the book to support your discussion.

Essay Topic 3

What role did Andrew's father have the night of the shooting? Why did he choose to hide the gun Edith used to kill Jim? Did he understand the true situation between Eden and Jim? Why or why not? Give examples from the book to support your discussion.

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