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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 was Sam going to spend the night with all her canned food?

2. Men were nostalgic about what sometimes that bothered Sam?

3. What is the card table covered with at Tom's apartment?

4. Where does Donna's husband work?

5. What does Sam ask Emmett to do in regards of the car she is buying?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Tom asks if Sam wants eggs, what does she assume will happen?

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

3. How does Sam blame herself for what went wrong with Tom at his apartment?

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

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

6. What does Irene ask Sam about the plot of the movie, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"?

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

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

9. In Dwayne's journal, what happens when he follows the Vietcong?

10. How does Sam feel about cats and what does Dawn say about them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Lexington and Hopewell. What are Irene's feelings about both places in relation to Sam?

Essay Topic 2

To Sam, Dawn represents the status quo in Hopewell. How? What does Sam tell her to to do to avoid being part of the norm there?

Essay Topic 3

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

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