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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 is the first real idea Dean throws out to Andy when they talk about the next step Dean could take?

2. In what gesture do Evvie and Dean engage after he expresses his gratitude for the way she had stood up to the woman on the porch?

3. What event marks the first breach of the pact between Evvie and Dean?

4. Dean laments that he has "only done one thing seriously since" (54) he was what age?

5. According to Evvie, the townspeople saw her as someone who "had gone directly from lobsterman's daughter to" (44) what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Name and discuss a second coping mechanism Evvie used to combat the feelings inspired by her unhappy marriage, according to the narrator.

2. Which comment of Frank's makes Evvie furious during Thanksgiving dinner and why?

3. Discuss an instance when Tim's actions resulted in trauma to Evvie.

4. What does Evvie mean when she thinks about semicolons in relation to Dean's speech?

5. In what way does the theme of isolation appear within Fall: Chapter 1 of Evvie Drake Starts Over?

6. What elements does Evvie name when she tells Dean the topics that concern the citizens of Calcasset?

7. What major secret is Evvie keeping from her best friend Andy?

8. What do Evvie's set of dishes with the yellow flowers on them symbolize?

9. What object does Evvie place on the mantel just before she opens the door to meet Dean and what is the object's significance?

10. What is the "one thing" (54) Dean claims to have done seriously ever since the age of ten?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the topics of romantic relationships, love, and sex treated within the novel Evvie Drake Starts Over and how does their treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?

Essay Topic 2

Determine Holmes’s message within the novel Evvie Drake Starts Over regarding the negative effects of isolation.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how and why Holmes instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Evvie Drake Starts Over.

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