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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. Who is Angelique?

2. What does Georgie believe to be all over the Operating Room floor in Story 6?

3. What is the "second man's" real name?

4. How much money does Nez Perce say the narrator owes him in Story 9?

5. Who is out in front of the abortion building in Story 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relevance of picketers standing outside the abortion clinic in Story 7?

2. What role does Terrence play in Story 6? How do the other characters in the story handle Terrence's situation?

3. In what way is the large horse pill the narrator receives in Story 9 a prize for the narrator?

4. What is Hardee's emergency seen in Story 6?

5. Who is the narrator searching for in Seattle in Story 9? What does he recall about this person?

6. Explain how the relationship between the Story 8 narrator and military wife at the bar reinforces the theme of the tension between desperation and compassion.

7. How is Georgie portrayed by the narrator in Story 6. How do the narrator and Georgie know each other?

8. In what way is the title "Emergency" a direct metaphor of the narrator's life in Story 6?

9. How did Bill receive his bullet holes? How do these bullet holes haunt Bill?

10. What key point does the narrator make between the intimacy between men and women in Story 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the narrator's relationships with the different women in the book. How is each relationship similar and how are they different?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze, discuss, and explain the significance the following quote found in Story 1: "I knew every raindrop by its name. I sensed everything before it happened. I knew a certain Oldsmobile would stop for me even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside it I knew we'd have an accident in the storm. I didn't care. They said they'd take me all the way."

Essay Topic 3

Present arguments for and against Jesus' Son's relevance for a person around the same age as the narrator living in 1973.

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