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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. How much does Marian stand to earn for every book she shelves at the library?

2. Which of the following roles does Hadley note playing?

3. As which of the following does Annabel’s nanny euphemize female genitals?

4. What is the name of the horse Wallace, Marian, and Jamie have in Missoula?

5. Which of the following does Hadley report her therapist bids her imagine?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Thompson report telling the indigenous people he encounters alongside Gone-to-the-Spirits?

3. How does Stanley hide his alcohol production?

4. What brings the Brayfogles through Missoula?

5. How does Hadley describe glowworms?

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

7. What reasons are reported for Lena hunting via rifle rather than trap?

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

9. How is Addison’s home in New York City described?

10. What is noted as forcing Miss Dolly to relocate her establishment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

In “The Cosmic Whoosh of the Expanding Universe,” Hadley comments on the mismatches between Marian’s logbook and the novelization thereof. Hadley’s own project is a reinterpretation of the novelization. What attitude toward adaptation does the novel display, and how does it display as much?

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