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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. Over dinner at the Stafford Hotel, Dean gives Evvie the key to which room in the hotel?

2. Andy tells Evvie during the breakfast in Spring: Chapter 20 not to try to take what action in regards to Dean?

3. Evvie chooses Dr. Jane Talco as a therapist for Dean in part because her website says that she treats what affliction?

4. For what length of time do Evvie and Dean drive before they reach the Stafford Hotel?

5. In what location does Evvie find Dean when she goes out in the middle of the night to follow him in Fall: Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. What piece of jewelry does Evvie remove before she heads out of town with Dean and why is this moment significant?

2. On what possible next step do Evvie and Dean agree once Evvie shares that she is not ready to date anyone?

3. Characterize the relationship between Evvie and her father Frank.

4. Describe an instance when the use of a third person omniscient narrator helps Holmes demonstrate duplicity.

5. What does the blue suitcase in the narrative symbolize?

6. Who is Monica?

7. How does Evvie inwardly react to Andy's suggestion that if she wanted to, she could also start dating again someday?

8. How does Holmes use the motif of sound to demonstrate Dean's grief at finding that he has lost the ability to pitch?

9. What story does Evvie tell Dean that causes Dean's mouth to fall open in Spring: Chapter 28?

10. For what reason does Dean decide to travel to Boston and back in one day?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the topic of hope treated within Evvie Drake Starts Over and how does its treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?

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

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

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