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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. In the summer when Mick takes her brothers for walks what does she think about?

2. Who took a drunken Jake Blount home?

3. What does Dr. Benedict Copeland do in the evening when he doesn't have patients?

4. What does Jake Blount say about Mr. Singer after he first meets him?

5. Who does Dr. Copeland take along with him on his medical rounds?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mister Singer offer to take Jake Blount home with him to spend the night?

2. What three things does Antonapoulos like to do most?

3. Why does Jake Blount bring a black man into the restaurant with him when he knew blacks cannot eat in the same place as white people?

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

5. Why is Doctor Copeland being forced to move from his home?

6. Why does Jake insist on going to visit Willie after hears about the young man's situation?

7. Why is Portia so determined that her father should live with her grandfather and other brothers when he is so different from them?

8. Why did Biff Brannon seem to be closer to his wife than they were when she was alive?

9. What do Spiros Antonapoulos and John Singer have in common?

10. What was it about the message in red, written on a wall, that held Jake Blount's attention?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did John Singer keep his hands in his pocket. What would have happened if he had kept them out of his pockets? Did keeping his hands in his pockets create another mystery about him, or an elusiveness?

Essay Topic 2

Mick Kelly's dream was to be a famous pianist. Was this dream realistic? What would she have had to overcome to achieve her dream? What talent, if any, did she show in the story that might lead the reader to believe this dream might come true one day? Did Mick see being a pianist as a means to travel around the world, or were the dreams to play piano and travel independent of one another?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the statement Mick made in the story about how lonesome a person can be in a crowded room. Why was this true for her? Did this have anything to do with Mick's "inside" and "outside" rooms? If so, how did it relate to them?

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