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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 piece of furniture does Steve bring home without asking Kelly?
2. What is the first thing Mimi does when she arrives?
3. What makes Ayinde say "Ouch"?
4. Becky goes for a walk to get away from Mimi. Whom does she go see?
5. Why does Lia chose to pay this way?
Short Essay Questions
1. Jennifer Weiner paints a picture of motherhood in the opening scene of "August Becky." How is this picture humorous?
2. When Lia tells her mother that "Something happened" her mother assures her that she cares. Lia awaits a sign that her mother cares. How does her mother show her that she cares?
3. Kelly and her husband Steve both come home from the hospital in "July Kelly." What had happened to Steve?
4. What are some reasons Becky refuses or does not want to speak to Mimi, her mother-in-law?
5. Why is Becky not happy with her mother-in-law moving to Philadelphia?
6. How does Lia's flight back to LA bring out the thought, "You can't go home again'?
7. Why is Becky so devastated that the doctor wants to perform a c-section?
8. What constitutes Lia's inability to come to grips with her baby's death?
9. How does the "smelly monstrosity of a couch that the neighbor was throwing away" give Kelly flashbacks of her childhood?
10. What changes Kelly's almost perfect world to a world of fear and panic in "June Kelly"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Three of the main characters all take a different approach to raising their children. Kelly takes the professional route and keeps track of everything on spreadsheets, Ayinde follows the book Baby Success, and Becky has a laid back approach. How do these particular strategies work out for them? If an approach does not seem to work out for them, what other approach do you think they should try and why? Does any one approach seem to work better than the others?
Essay Topic 2
Throughout the book, we learn about the main characters and their relationships with their mothers and/or mothers-in-law. Some of the main characters have strong relationships with their mothers and/or mothers-in-law; while others have poor relationships with their mothers and/or mothers-in-law. Write about the relationships of the four main characters with their mothers and/or mothers-in-law. Tell if the relationship is good or bad and what causes or has caused the relationship to be the way it is.
Essay Topic 3
All of the friends underwent many changes during Little Earthquakes. One of the biggest transformations was with Lia. Describe how Lia changed in the story.
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