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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. What happened to Tyler's teeth in the car accident?

2. Which book did Tara's father often read?

3. What did Tara's father expect to fail?

4. What did Tara say her life was ruled by?

5. What religion did Tara grow up in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Tara worry about when Tyler decided to go to college?

2. Which New Age philosophy did Tara's mother practice?

3. What did grandma-down-the-hill plan for Tara in Chapter One?

4. How did Tara's parents support her decision to audition for Annie?

5. What was Tara's father's relationship with his mother?

6. Why did Tyler use some of his savings to buy silver?

7. What traumatized Tara about her father's story in Chapter One?

8. What was Tara's opinion of her maternal grandparents?

9. Why did Tara have trouble trusting her mother?

10. What goal did Tara's father have for his family's independence?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Tara's father's personality. Why did people listen to him if his ideas were so far outside of the norm? Describe what made him be able to command a room.

Essay Topic 2

Why did Tara's father think women should not work outside the home? How did he convey his beliefs to his family? How did her father justify her mother's work as a midwife?

Essay Topic 3

In the Epigraph, Virginia Woolf’s quote is about the past and John Dewey’s quote is about education. Explain why the author used these two quotes. How do they represent the entirety of the book?

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