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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 name of the boy Joey befriends while in college?

2. When Patty learns of Walter's "crazy speech," how does she react?

3. In "Mistakes Were Made (Conclusion)," Patty feels that her relationship with Joey will not improve until what happens?

4. At the end of "2004," Walter thinks that he is what?

5. How is Lalitha suddenly killed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Patty do after leaving Richard? What causes her to leave there?

2. How does Patty feel upon learning of the death of Lalitha?

3. What surprises Patty at her father's funeral? What effect does this have on her?

4. Briefly describe Joey's relationship with Connie as related in "Womanland."

5. What happens to Walter and Lalitha after Walter's speech goes viral?

6. What does Patty realize about herself and her siblings?

7. In "The Fiend of Athens," what happens when Walter delivers a speech?

8. What is the outcome of Patty's relationship with Richard?

9. What happens to Patty after Walter evicts her?

10. When Patty hears of Walter's "crazy speech," how does she feel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Near the end of the novel, Patty's mother tells her: "I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart” (564). How do her words apply to Patty? to Walter?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze how Walter and Patty's relationship changes over the course of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Walter and Richard as character foils. How are they similar, and how are they different? How do they influence one another? What do their differences say about one another?

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