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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 gets injured by the gun?
2. Why does the guard advise Lester not to reveal his occupation?
3. What does Behrani instruct Esmail to do when they go into the boy's room?
4. How does Lester decide that the Behranis have not harmed Kathy?
5. Why is Kathy unable to speak when she wakes up in the hospital?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Lester decide that the Behranis have harmed Kathy when he returns to the house and looks in through the window?
2. Which of the Behranis takes responsibility for saving Kathy when they find her after she took the pills?
3. Why does Kathy feel a sense of unreality while she is in the hospital?
4. Who does Lester want to call from jail and what does he plan to say?
5. Lester becomes suspicious of Esmail. What causes this reaction?
6. Why does Kathy go sit in the car to wait for Lester to return? Why doesn't she stay inside the house?
7. When Lester describes his feelings during the drive to the county office, he says it is probably the way felons want to feel all the time. How does he say he feels?
8. What is nazr?
9. Behrani says that he sometimes believes he is being punished. What does he think he is being punished for, and how is this similar to Kathy's feelings?
10. Why does Lester feel that his anger, which is leaving him in the Behrani house, is something precious that he needs?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The breaking of promises is a significant theme in this story. Behrani, Kathy, and Lester all make vows and break them. Choose one of the three characters. Analyze the promises they make and their motivation for breaking those promises. For example, the HALT advice for addicts is useful, but ignored by Kathy. How might the story have been different if she and/or Lester had followed the HALT prescription?
Essay Topic 2
Main characters in this story reach a point where each feels that he is through with lies and deception. Analyze the importance of deception in this story. What does each of the men pretend to be that he is not? What do you think Dubus is trying to teach us about lies?
Essay Topic 3
At the end of the story, three of the main characters each say that they got what they deserved. Do you agree with them? Are the final results similar to what you predicted? In this essay, compare your early predictions for the outcome of this conflict with the actual resolution. If your predictions were different, do you like your ideas better than the actual results? Why or why not?
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