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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 the fictional author that is attributed with writing The Spiritual Lincoln: An Essential Journey?
2. Herndon’s Informants is said to detail whose account in Chapter 72?
3. Who shared opium with the Barons?
4. What does the narrator call the statue of the bald man in Roman garb that he describes in Chapter 59?
5. When was Minnesota admitted as a U.S. state?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is described in the account of Paul Riles, White House guard in Chapter 57?
2. What does the Reverend Thomas describe of his transformation in Chapter 80?
3. To what does Lance Durning attest in Chapter 65?
4. What does Willie's suit symbolize in the novel?
5. What is the outcome of the young lovers that is described in Chapter 77?
6. What do Vollman and Bevins realize about the passage of time in Chapter 55?
7. What is the focus on the excerpts in Chapter 47?
8. How is the experience of being in Lincoln described in Chapter 49?
9. To what sin does Captain William Prince confess? To whom does he confess?
10. How do Mr. Bevins and Mr. Vollman go about occupying Mr. Lincoln in Chapter 44?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Detail and discuss the plot structure of Lincoln in the Bardo. Where does the exposition transition into rising action? What is the instigating incident? Where is the climax of the plot? What is revealed in the falling action and denouement?
Essay Topic 2
What occurs when characters from the bardo merge or occupy the bodies of the living? How does this experience change them? How does it impact the living being?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the lives and deaths of Eddie and Betsy Baron in Lincoln in the Bardo. Where did Eddie and Betsy live when they were alive? What did they think of their circumstances? Why do they remain in the bardo?
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