Improvement Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Joan Silber
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 147 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Improvement Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Joan Silber
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 147 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 city does Darisse live in?

2. What does Reyna tell Boyd about cigarette smuggling to try to discourage him from doing it?

3. What did Osman decide to do after he had to close his carpet shop?

4. What does Darisse do for Lionel in order to placate him so she can keep seeing her daughter?

5. What kind of flowers does Silas have in his apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the midst of Hurricane Sandy, what does Reyna's father call her and ask her to do?

2. How does Lionel treat Darisse when she comes to pick up her daughter?

3. Why does Teddy have financial problems following Claude's crashing into his truck?

4. What does Kiki's Turkish boyfriend decide to do when he stops selling carpets?

5. How does Teddy seem to feel about the driver of the car that smashed into his truck?

6. How does Darisse meet SIlas, the man she ends up dating after she realizes Claude has disappeared?

7. What does Kiki eventually tell her family about why her marriage ended and why she was coming home from Turkey?

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

9. Why does Sally tell Teddy she is breaking off their affair?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the differences between what Kiki tells Reyna about why her marriage to Osman fell apart and the full story of what really happened between Kiki and Osman? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Why does Reyna want to know so much about Kiki's history, particularly about Kiki's marriage to Osman? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing Reyna's changing attitudes towards Boyd and his friends' cigarette-smuggling scheme, from the time when Boyd first tells her about it (28) to when she has a last minute change of heart about driving the car for them on one of their runs (52). What are some of Reyna's main considerations for going along with, and then rejecting, the scheme?

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