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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 Dawn buy at the super market that freaks her out when she goes to cook it?

2. Sam finds what on the memorial after finding her father's name?

3. While the transmission of the VW is being fixed, Sam goes where?

4. What Doors song is playing on the radio when Sam is decorating the ceramic cat?

5. Where did Irene and Dwayne get married?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does a curious pleasure steal over Sam as she hears someone approaching on the boardwalk at Caewood's Pond?

2. Why does Sam make her mother's bed up with two fitted bottom sheets?

3. How does Sam react as they are getting closer to the Vietnam Memorial?

4. Where is Sam when a man tries to pick up on her and how does she react to his advances?

5. What does Sam hope Tom will do the day after their encounter at his apartment?

6. What does Sam think would have happened if her parents had waited to have her until Dwayne got back from the war?

7. How does Lonnie feel about Sam's car and how does Sam respond to his feelings?

8. What do the arms of the willow tree shadowed on her wall remind Sam of?

9. How does Sam speculate on how women would run the world if they had the power men had?

10. Why hadn't the the previous occupant of Sam's house, Bessie, thrown away the liquor bottles her husband had drunk from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is Tom attractive to Sam? Why won't he return her affections?

Essay Topic 2

Sam is resentful of her mother's new baby. Explain why.

Essay Topic 3

Sam feels she knows nothing about herself, her name, and her father. How are these feelings manifested and how do they drive her to find out more about her history?

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