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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 was the first thing Boyd and his friends ask Reyna to help with in their cigarette-smuggling plans?

2. What is the subject of the sermon Darisse hears at church the Sunday she takes Jeshauna?

3. What does Amanda joke about in relation to her illness?

4. What do Darisse, Frances, and Jeshauna do one weekend when Darisse has Jeshauna?

5. Whose name goes on the car registration that Boyd and his friends use for their smuggling scheme?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Reyna upset to hear is coming to visit Boyd at Rikers Island and why is she upset about it?

2. What does Darisse do to try to win back Lionel's favor when he is upset with her?

3. Why is Darisse unable to have custody of her two year-old daughter, Jeshauna?

4. What does Reyna think might be in her apartment somewhere, and what does she plan to do with it if she finds it?

5. What was the main reason that Teddy and Sally got divorced?

6. Why do Boyd and his friends ask Reyna to drive one of the runs to Virginia to smuggle cigarettes?

7. What does Teddy apologize to Sally for ruining as part of his rehab for his alcoholism?

8. How does Kiki's attitude toward Reyna change after Hurricane Sandy?

9. What does Reyna think when she sees the women on the bus to Rikers Island doing their hair and makeup?

10. What does Darisse tell Silas about where Jesuauna's present from Claude came from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing why Dieter's brief meeting with Kiki seems to have made such an impression on him, to the point that after spending only one platonic night with her in the seventies, he thinks of her at length decades later when he sees an artifact in a New York City museum.

Essay Topic 2

What role does Claude's and Teddy's car accident seem to play in Teddy's decision not to accept his ex-wife Sally's entreaties to begin their love affair again? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing why Kiki is so excited when the three Germans - Dieter, Bruno, and Steffi - show up on Osman's family's farm in Turkey in 1977. Why do you think she ultimately decided not to take them up on their offer to her to travel with them?

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