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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 do Toby and Rachel do when they first meet?

2. Why does Toby agree to go to the literary society party?

3. Who is Cherry?

4. What does Sam Rothberg's nephew want to be?

5. Where was Toby and Rachel's actual honeymoon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Alejandra Lopez and how does Rachel discover her?

2. What does Toby reveal about his struggle with weight in Section 5?

3. How is Rachel's labor and delivery with Hannah?

4. What happens to Rachel's job in the Section 4 flashback?

5. What role does Same Rothberg play in Rachel's nervous breakdown?

6. What does Nahid reveal about her soon to be ex-husband in Section 5?

7. How does Rachel describe Miriam Rothberg in Section 6?

8. Why does Toby have to go to camp in Section 5?

9. How does Toby describe his sister in Section 5?

10. What does Rachel teach Toby after they start dating?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Are the characters too judgmental of themselves and others in the novel? How does this impact the development of each of the main characters?

Essay Topic 2

Which characters in the text are static? Which are dynamic?

Essay Topic 3

Is this a feminist text? Explain your response.

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