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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 does Frankie's father tell her is looking for her while she is traveling around town on the Saturday before Jarvis's wedding?

2. What does F. Jasmin spend the Saturday before the wedding doing?

3. What happens to Uncle Charles in Part 2, Chapter 1?

4. What is the setting of the story?

5. Who is the first person that F. Jasmin shares her post-wedding plans with while at the Blue Moon?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Frankie describe her experience of seeing the two boys out of the corner of her eye to Berenice?

2. Why is Frankie isolated by her female peers?

3. Describe the argument between the monkey man and the red-haired solider.

4. Describe Mary Littlejohn and her family.

5. How does F. Jasmin differ from Frankie?

6. Describe the bus ride to Winter Hill.

7. Why was Frankie jealous of the soldiers? Why was F. Jasmin not jealous of the soldiers?

8. Describe Big Mama.

9. How does F. Jasmin feel while on her date with the soldier? How is the soldier similar to Mr. Marlowe?

10. What is F. Jasmin's views on dating? Why does she think this way?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is F. Jasmin 's dream in which she faced an opening door, significant to the plot of the story? Please use specific examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Why does the novel not focus on Jarvis even though his wedding is anticipated throughout the novel? Why does the author choose to only focus on Jarvis through Frankie's thoughts about the wedding and her memories of her brother? Please use specific examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

In the Member of the Wedding, Frankie is the protagonist of the novel. Is Frankie her own antagonist? Why or why not? Please use specific examples from the book.

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