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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 Henry give his mother from his bowl for breakfast in Chapter 11?

2. How old is Henry in Chapter 1?

3. How does Henry get to and from the Lake View Cemetery?

4. What does Marty drive in Chapter 10?

5. What is the name on the inside of the small suitcase Henry opens that has shaving supplies?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Henry drop out of college when he's younger, and what does he do after dropping out?

2. Why does Henry end up riding the wagon with all of Keiko's photos down a street?

3. What does Keiko wear when she met Henry outside the Black Elks Club?

4. Why does Marty come to see Henry in Chapter 18?

5. Why are Chaz and his father at Henry's home when Henry arrives in Chapter 20?

6. How does Henry remember the way that Ethel dealt with hair loss from her cancer treatments?

7. What does Henry decide when he wonders if Ethel would approve of his digging into the past?

8. How wis Keiko's mother interested in art?

9. Where did Henry get the plum tree that he planted when Marty was born?

10. What are people burning in Chapter 16, and why are they burning these items?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Father-son relationships is a theme in the novel. How is the relationship that Henry has with his father different from the relationship that his son has with him? How does culture and what is going on in the world affect those relationships?

Essay Topic 2

Marty makes assumptions about his father. What assumptions does Marty make about Henry? How are his assumptions proved to be wrong? How does realizing that he has been wrong about his father affect the relationship Marty has with Henry?

Essay Topic 3

Henry learns to think for himself in 1942. How do the events that Henry experiences in 1942 help him to grow up and mature? How do those experiences affect him all his life?

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