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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 color is the hull of the Josephina Eterna painted at her christening?

2. What is the name of Hadley’s security guard?

3. How many siblings does Cora report having?

4. Which of the following invited Marian into Miss Dolly’s?

5. Which of the following sends Marian to Geraldine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What brings the Brayfogles through Missoula?

2. What is Marx’s primary observation about flight?

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

4. How does the novel define the term “vrille” (187)?

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

6. How does Hadley describe the feeling of confronting choices at college?

7. What reasons does Hugo cite for asking Hadley not to have a meltdown?

8. When her father asks what he could have done to help her, what reply does Annabel make?

9. What is remarked upon as Wallace’s “one unexpected strictness” (87)?

10. In what hiding places does Marian secret money?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What overall attitude towards vice does the novel display? How does that attitude emerge?

Essay Topic 2

The comment is made about Jamie’s portraiture that “make someone too perfect, and the likeness becomes a critique” (223). Why might this be the case? How might it occur?

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. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

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