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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 is Portia?

2. What is the essay contest supposed to be about?

3. What happens to Dr. Copeland at the family reunion?

4. How does Jake Blount feel when he is at home?

5. In July, where does Mr. Singer go to visit his friend?

Short Essay Questions

1. What bothered Doctor Copeland when he attended the family reunion?

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

3. What place did Mick Kelly favor during her long walks at night, and why?

4. What impact does the situation with Hitler in Europe have on Harry and Mick?

5. In spite of Doctor Copeland seeming to set himself above the other African-Americans in town, how did he feel about them?

6. What was it that Biff Brannon and his sister-in-law, Lucille, disagreed on?

7. Why does Mick sit on the stairs for such a long time?

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

9. What is happening with Mick in the opening of Part 2, Chapter 14?

10. What characteristics did Biff Brannon have that may have seemed in conflict, yet after the death of his wife flourished?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the inequality both Doctor Copeland and Jake Blount were so determined to help end. If these were actual people, were their approaches ever successful?

Essay Topic 2

Who is the main character of the novel and why? What about the protagonist and antagonist?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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