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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 Irene buy for Sam as a gift that it turns out Emmett told Irene to buy?
2. What does Sam say she could get into to try to get TOm to want to be with her when she buys the car from him?
3. Why does Sam think women wanted to have jobs?
4. The Washington Monument is a gleaming what against the sky, according to the author?
5. According to Grandma Smith, what do young folks not appreciate?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Sam feel about cats and what does Dawn say about them?
2. Why didn't Sam give her mother the ceramic cat she decorated when Irene gave her $600 to buy the car?
3. How does Irene describe Bob?
4. When Tom asks if Sam wants eggs, what does she assume will happen?
5. How does Emmett react to Sam's admonishment of her father's feelings toward the war that he expressed in his journal?
6. Why does a curious pleasure steal over Sam as she hears someone approaching on the boardwalk at Caewood's Pond?
7. Why does Irene want Emmett to warn her next time he comes to Lexington and how does Emmett respond to her sarcasm?
8. Why hadn't the the previous occupant of Sam's house, Bessie, thrown away the liquor bottles her husband had drunk from?
9. How does Sam speculate on how women would run the world if they had the power men had?
10. How does Emmett end up at Irene's house in Lexington?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What effect has the Vetnam War had on Emmett? How does it compare to the effect it had on other veterans of the war?
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
Anita loves Emmett very much. Why can't Emmett have a relationship with her? What does Sam speculate at different times in the book might be his problem with Anita and women in general?
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