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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 spirits does Ali favor?

2. What profession does Cyrus’s mother tell Lisa Simpson she had wanted to have?

3. What rank does William M. Fogarty hold?

4. What ship shot down Flight 655?

5. To which of the following does Zee compare himself and Cyrus?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Gabe rebuke Cyrus for his pretense of mysticism?

2. Why does Cyrus find American hookah bars suspect?

3. Why does Ali like Westerns?

4. For what does Lisa Simpson rebuke Cyrus’s mother?

5. Why does Cyrus dislike Bluebarn?

6. How does Cyrus quit smoking?

7. Why does Ali hate baby formula?

8. What function does a whiskey bottle serve for Cyrus?

9. What does Cyrus want most when God speaks back to him after 27 years?

10. How does Cyrus’s mother know she is pregnant with him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 2

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 3

The novel returns to its epigraph at its end, giving a fuller quotation there than at the beginning of the text. What effect does it have for the reader, and how is that effect achieved?

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