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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. According to the narrator in Chapter 11, how does young Margaret feel about her brothers?
2. In what branch of the armed forces does Don serve during WWII?
3. To whom does Donald become engaged at the end of Chapter 7?
4. As discussed in Chapter 13, what blinds Mimi and Don to Brian’s suffering?
5. What theory do Irving Gottesman and James Shields publish on the origins of schizophrenia, as explained in Chapter 14?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the theory schizophrenogenic mother, as explained in Chapter 4?
2. How does Jim distance himself from his older brother in Chapter 6?
3. What traumatic experience begins to happen to Margaret and Mary in Chapter 12? How do they react to this trauma? Why?
4. What happens as Margaret goes to live with the Garys in Chapter 20?
5. What impact did the theory of the schizophrenogenic mother have on families, as explained in Chapter 4?
6. What happens to Michael in Chapter 13? Why does Michael believe these things have happened to him?
7. Who is Lynn DeLisi and for what does she begin searching in Chapter 18?
8. What dynamic exists among the Galvin boys in Chapter 5? How do their parents handle this dynamic?
9. What happens when the family visits the Brain Bio Center in Chapter 19?
10. Who is Marilee? How does she reflect Donald’s increasing instability in Chapter 7?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Lindsay finds herself involved in several conflicts during her childhood and adulthood. Choose one instance of internal conflict and one instance of external conflict, and explain how these conflicts have an impact on both herself and her family.
Essay Topic 2
Hidden Valley Road opens with an epigraph taken from Anne Tyler, who writes: “The clearest way that you can show endurance is by sticking with a family.” Using textual evidence to support your claims, show how Tyler’s words apply to Hidden Valley Road.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the importance of the mothers to the book. Mimi has a powerful impact on her children; later, Lindsay has a powerful impact on her two children. What other mothers appear in the book? Discuss the impact of mothers and how the issue of motherhood furthers the conflicts and themes of Hidden Valley Road.
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