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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 what items is the suitcase in the prologue decorated?
2. Evvie recalls a time in her youth when she had been stranded in the rain and which character had given her a ride?
3. On what day of the week do Evvie and Andy always meet for a particular meal?
4. Once Evvie uses a particular object to prop open the door between the main house and Dean's apartment, they begin to only close the door on which occasions?
5. What is the first real idea Dean throws out to Andy when they talk about the next step Dean could take?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do Evvie's set of dishes with the yellow flowers on them symbolize?
2. Provide evidence for the conclusion that Evvie had been frightened of her husband Tim during their marriage.
3. How does Holmes weave together issues of class with issues of domestic abuse?
4. Name and discuss one coping mechanism Evvie used to make it through her days during her marriage to Tim.
5. For what major change is Evvie preparing when the reader first meets her in the prologue entitled First?
6. What major secret is Evvie keeping from her best friend Andy?
7. When Dean expresses his appreciation to Evvie at the end of Fall: Chapter 5, what two specific elements does he name?
8. What elements does Evvie name when she tells Dean the topics that concern the citizens of Calcasset?
9. Discuss an instance when Tim's actions resulted in trauma to Evvie.
10. Which comment of Frank's makes Evvie furious during Thanksgiving dinner and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explicate the theme of trust within Evvie Drake Starts Over. What is Holmes’s message regarding trust and how do you know?
Essay Topic 2
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Holmes’s novel Evvie Drake Starts Over. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Holmes's purpose for juxtaposing at least two different locations in a particular way within the text of Evvie Drake Starts Over.
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