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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 action causes Li'l Bit to comment on Peck's dexterity?
2. What does Peck recommend for dinner at the fancy restaurant on the Eastern Shore?
3. Who does Li'l Bit meet on the long bus ride to Upstate New York?
4. What gender does Li'l Bit decide to use when referring to the car?
5. Why does Peck refer to the car as a she?
Short Essay Questions
1. Peck talks Li'l Bit into lying beside him in the bed, promising nothing happens. Li'l Bit agrees. How does this make her feel?
2. Grandma marries Big Papa as a child bride at age fourteen. What does she still believe in?
3. How does the character of Li'l Bit introduce the first scene?
4. Describe Big Papa.
5. How does Big Papa describe his choice of Grandma for a bride.
6. Why is the mother concerned about her 11 year old daughter?
7. What is Li'l Bit's plan to keep Peck from drinking?
8. During the 1966 scene titled "The Anthropology of the Female Body in Ninth Grade", an occasional beeping is heard only by the reader and by Li'l Bit. What is the beeping.
9. What does Vogel transition from the scene with the three females in the kitchen talking about sex, to Li'l Bit's first driving lesson.
10. What views on women does Peck share with Li'l Bit as he does the dishes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Li'l Bit's breasts draw attention from family and classmates. Describe how this affects Li'l Bit, giving examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Cars and driving are an important theme in this play. Describe what cars and driving represent in "How I Learned to Drive", and give examples.
Essay Topic 3
Peck refers to his car as a "she". Explain his reasons for doing so and why you think that Li'l Bit does the same. Is this a practice you witness outside of this play? Give examples.
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