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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 smell in an old photo album at the end of Chapter 14?

2. How many years has Henry fed, bath, and help his wife?

3. What is the year at the beginning of Chapter 1?

4. What type of flowers does Henry put on Ethel's grave in Chapter 10?

5. In Chapter 17, how long does Henry sort through things in the basement of the hotel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Keiko want to meet Henry in Chapter 20?

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

3. What does Henry take to Ethel's gravesite in Chapter 10?

4. What does Keiko look like?

5. Why does Henry go to Bud's Jazz Records?

6. What are Executive Orders, and which Executive Orders does Henry's father discuss with him in Chapter 15?

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

8. What commotion does Henry see at the beginning of Chapter 1?

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

10. What is Henry's son's, Marty, major in college, and how is he doing at college?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Marty is engaged to be married. How is his relationship with Samantha similar and dissimilar to his father's relationship with Ethel? Why is Marty free to marry outside his race and Henry was not?

Essay Topic 2

Henry and Keiko experience racism. What instances of racism are there in the novel? How does that treatment affect the them, their families, and people they know?

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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