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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 Raleigh's uncle, from whom he received his middle name?

2. Where is Bonnie at the end of Part 1, Chapter 5?

3. What does Raleigh receive from Earley in a brown paper bag?

4. Where should the route that Raleigh and Mingo are driving, in Part 2, Chapter 16, take them?

5. What physical characteristic best describes Mingo?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who and what does Raleigh's father want him to gather to bring to him in another state?

2. Explain how Raleigh ends up with a second pistol belonging to Mingo.

3. Which three items does Raleigh learn the whereabouts of during his visit with Victoria? Discuss the whereabouts.

4. Explain the legend of Major General Goodrich Hays, C.S.A., and Raleigh's connection to it.

5. Explain the fight that Raleigh orchestrates at Lovie's party and his need to do so.

6. What do the people of Thermopylae think Earley has done, and why?

7. What is the importance of a cassette tape in Handling Sin?

8. Why is Earley in the hospital at the beginning of the story, and how does he leave?

9. During Lovie's party, where does Mingo consider running away to, why, and why doesn't he go?

10. What specific instructions does Raleigh's father give him regarding Gates, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is a genre? Discuss both the genre and sub-genre categories that best describe Handling Sin. Explain your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's writing experience and his successes of this book, Handling Sin, and his other writings.

Essay Topic 3

Define falling action as an element of plot. Discuss in detail the falling action in this book. How did it flow? What role did the falling action have in the story, and how did it work?

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