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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Desma know that it was Nora who wrote the rebuttal letter in The Sentinel?
(a) Because Nora is the only woman she know who can write.
(b) Because Nora is the only person Desma told about her first husband being shot.
(c) Because Nora's handwriting is so recognizable.
(d) Because Nora was the only one who had known her first husband's name.

2. What does Desma tell the postman as he scrambles off her land?
(a) Not to call her by her first husband's name ever again.
(b) Not to speak to Nora ever again.
(c) Not to steal from her garden ever again.
(d) Not to lay a hand on a piece of paper with her name on it ever again.

3. What is written on a gold-lettered shingle at The Sentinel office?
(a) The Lark Family Editors.
(b) Lark and Sons.
(c) Emmett Lark.
(d) The Newspaper Boys.

4. Why is Lurie being chased by the law?
(a) He stole a diamond.
(b) He robbed a bank.
(c) He started a fire.
(d) He beat a young man to death.

5. What advice does Donovan give Lurie soon after they meet?
(a) To make sure he worked hard every day.
(b) Not to ever drink except from his own flask.
(c) To make sure he married the right woman.
(d) Not to ever let anyone touch him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author does Obreht open the novel with a quote from?

2. What is Desma's last name?

3. Where is there talk of moving the county seat to, away from Amargo?

4. What is Nora's husband's name?

5. Who is the postman that comes to Desma's while Nora is there?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of disposition does Lurie say camels would not suit?

2. What does Lurie steal on the ship he takes cover on whose owner he later bumps into in Part I?

3. How does Lurie acquire the last name of Mattie?

4. How does Toby injure his eye?

5. What is awkward about Nora's visit to Desma in Part II?

6. What was Hobb's special skill, even as a child?

7. What is Hobb's "want" that Lurie is compelled to fulfill?

8. What kind of creature does Lurie see for the first time when he steals away on the ship in Part II?

9. What makes Lurie give Jolly back the nazar he has stolen from him?

10. What one word does Emmett question Nora's use of in her rebuttal letter she wants him to print in The Sentinel?

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