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 does Reyna tell Oliver when he asks where Boyd is after Claude's death?

2. Why does Kiki not like Reyna's new tattoo in Chapter 1?

3. Where do Silas's children live?

4. What is Oliver's father's name?

5. What does Kiki give to Reyna when Oliver is born?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Kiki eventually tell Reyna was the reason she left Osman, and their marriage, in Turkey?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Reyna change her mind at the last minute about driving to Virginia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Write an essay analyzing what the last rug Kiki had from Osman symbolized for her. Why is she so regretful almost immediately after selling it?

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