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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 does Mick say to Portia about God?

2. What does Dr. Copeland's daughter want them to stop doing?

3. What was on the written on the card that Mr. Singer gave Jake Blount?

4. What about Jake Blount seems to stand out most to Brannon?

5. What happens to Singer after Antonapoulos was gone?

Short Essay Questions

1. After living without his friend for over a year, why did the death of the other man push Mister Singer to suicide?

2. What happened as Mister Singer got more acquainted with the people in the town?

3. In what ways do Portia and her father differ in their reaction to Willie's punishment in prison and the loss of his feet?

4. Where does Antonapoulos's cousin, Charles Parker, take him after he gets into more trouble?

5. What do Biff Brannon and his wife, Alice, argue about when they are first introduced to the story?

6. Why did Doctor Copeland have problems choosing the essay contest winner?

7. What do we learn about the Kellys financial situation in Part 2, Chapter 9?

8. What does Blount want even more than a job?

9. Why does Doctor Copeland want to contact Mister Singer?

10. Why is Jake Blount leaving town?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the character of Biff Brannon. Although he liked trying to figure out a good puzzle, he was also an enigma. What was going on inside him? Why did he start wearing his wife's perfume and using her hair conditioner after she died? Why does he consider it a compliment when Lucille tells him he'd make a good mother? Was there anything suspicious about his actions toward Mick Kelly?

Essay Topic 2

Examine and discuss the quote from Karl Marx that Doctor Copeland uses in the story, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." How did this apply to what was happening in the story?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the kind of relationship Mick Kelly has with her family, especially her mother. Why doesn't Mick confide in her parents about her dreams? What happened to the close relationship she once had with her older brother? Why does Mick seem closest to her younger brothers? At one point in the novel Mick keeps asking her brother Bubber/George if he loves her. Why was it so important to her that he love her not just because she was his sister?

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