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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. Who calls an ambulance for Winfield?

2. How do the crowd react to Winfield's performance?

3. What does the officer ask Broussard for?

4. What happened to Winfield's father?

5. Where does Boudreaux take the stumps?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the drink effecting Broussard in this section?

2. Describe Broussard's first morning of freedom.

3. What trouble is Broussard in at the police station?

4. How does Winfield describe his family?

5. What problems is Winfield having in Chapter 4?

6. In what way could the relationship between Suzanne and Broussard be described as desperate?

7. Describe Wally's character?

8. How does Boudreaux feel about being free once more?

9. How does Winfield's performance go down at the end of this section?

10. What does Broussard's parole officer tell him in this section?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the work camp teach Broussard and Boudreaux? What does what they learn say about work camps during the Sixties? How have work camps changed since then?

Essay Topic 2

What effect do the following people have on Winfield's life?

1. Hunnicut.

2. April.

3. His sister.

4. Lanagan.

5. Elgin.

Essay Topic 3

Compare Winfield's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the he is at the end.

1. What did Winfield hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes Winfield ideas about life?

3. How has Winfield's character changed by the end of the book?

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