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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. Where is the location of the first setting?

2. What sound cuts off the music in the first scene?

3. How does Li'l Bit describe the soap in the ladies room of the restaurant?

4. As the lights dim, what announcement does "How I Learned to Drive" open with?

5. Who does Peck take fishing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after Peck's surprising declaration to Li'l Bit at the end of the photo shoot?

2. Describe Big Papa.

3. How does Peck describe his childhood while fishing with Bobby?

4. Why does Li'l Bit not want to be called by that name any longer in the family dinner scene?

5. Explain Peck's theory of "fire" and people.

6. Describe Peck's special place.

7. What gives the 35 year old Li'l Bit comfort and a feeling of freedom?

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 Li'l Bit tell her grandfather happens to him when he dies?

10. What does Li'l Bit get upset about at the photo shoot?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Peck is teaching Li'l Bit how to drive, he is all seriousness. Why is that?

Essay Topic 2

Peck is described as having his own demons to deal with. What are these demons? Give examples of how he deals with them.

Essay Topic 3

Mother and Grandma have different attitudes about sex. Explain what they are and why they're so different.

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