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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. Which of the following books does Marian note reading?

2. What is the name of Caleb’s mother?

3. To what does Hadley compare the sounds of paparazzi?

4. In which of the following does the novel remark Mitch lived?

5. For whom does Marian first scavenge bottles?

Short Essay Questions

1. What brings the Brayfogles through Missoula?

2. What are the three possible outcomes of a graveyard spiral?

3. What does Marian note is the “great unifying thesis” of Marx’s teaching (184)?

4. How do Hadley’s parents die?

5. How does Matilda mark out the distinctions among first-, second-, and third-class passengers on the Josephina Eterna?

6. What reason does Annabel give for refusing to bathe after the birth of her twin children?

7. How does Stanley hide his alcohol production?

8. In what hiding places does Marian secret money?

9. For what does Marian grieve after her first flight to Vancouver?

10. What reasons does Hadley cite for having taken up with Oliver to begin with?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jamie is reported to comment that “Some people are rotten inside, and the rottenness will never go away” (137). Does the novel bear out the comment? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

The novel remarks that Addison Graves accepts “A plea of manslaughter” and a sentence of ten years in prison for his actions in leaving the Josephina Eterna (53-54). Are the charge and sentence appropriate, given the circumstances? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. How might the novel be sectioned off other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?

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