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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. Which of the following sits next to Erv as the Rileys watch television?

2. To what does Dan compare Laura?

3. What are the first words Freddy recalls Laura saying to her?

4. Which of the following adjectives does Laura apply to the doll-armed teddy bear in Freddy’s room?

5. Which of the following does the baby-headed stuffed animal in Freddy’s room say to her when her mother calls her to dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What boast does Dan make to Erv at the bowling alley?

2. How does the Seek-Her prompt Freddy to answer her question about meeting Laura?

3. Freddy texts Laura after the Valentine’s Day dance. What is Laura’s response (20)?

4. How does Freddy describe Laura to the Seek-Her?

5. How does Doodle attempt to comfort Laura after the latter’s consultation with the Seek-Her?

6. What does Freddy note is the second-hardest part of going through Laura breaking up with her?

7. After leaving the diner the morning after the Valentine’s Day dance, Doodle offers comfort to Freddy. What does she say to note that things could be worse?

8. What reason does Vi give for thinking at the bowling alley that someone had broken up with Freddy prior to her appearance at the donut shop?

9. What reaction do Freddy’s friends have to her drinking schnapps outside the Valentine’s Day dance?

10. What features on Freddy’s shower curtain?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What attitudes towards intoxicants does the graphic novel display, and how do those attitudes manifest in the work?

Essay Topic 2

What model of motherhood does Freddy’s mother provide in the graphic novel? Is it one of which the work approves? What in the graphic novel indicates as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

A lack of formal sectional division in the graphic novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

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