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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. From what does a teenage Jack suffer, as explained in Chapter 45?

2. When does Kathy end her marriage to Jim, as explained in Chapter 25?

3. Which researcher is struck by Mimi’s tenacity in Chapter 27?

4. When Lindsay visits Joe in Chapter 25, what does she consider for the first time?

5. What career path Kate does want to follow, as explained in Chapter 45?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Robert Freedman discover about the Galvins in Chapter 32?

2. What happens to Mimi in Chapter 38? Who cares for her?

3. What memory does Margaret have about her mother in Chapter 42? What does she think of this memory?

4. As Chapter 31 begins, whom does Mimi blame for the boys’ schizophrenia? Why?

5. What devastating news does Mimi learn in Chapter 31? How does she react?

6. How does Margaret view her parents’ secrets after they are revealed in Chapter 41? How does Lindsay feel about them?

7. What is SHANK2 and what do researchers discover about it in Chapter 36?

8. What controversial treatment does Peter receive in Chapter 34? How does he react to these treatments?

9. What deaths occur in Chapter 35? What are the causes of these deaths?

10. What does Lindsay discover in Chapter 41? How does she discover these things?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Mimi’s contradictory characteristics. In what ways is she a good mother? In what ways is she lacking as a mother?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the author’s choice to tell the story of the Galvin family through multiple perspectives. How does viewing the action through the eyes of different individuals affect the story? How would the book be different if the author used single perspective?

Essay Topic 3

What role does religion play in Hidden Valley Road? How does religion help the members of the Galvin family, and how does it hurt them?

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