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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 is the setting of the story?

2. How old is Frankie Addams' cousin John Henry?

3. What type of pass does the solider from the Blue Moon have?

4. What product was the sassy chorus on the radio singing an advertisement for?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Bernice.

2. Who are the Marlowe's, what is their relationship to Frankie and her family, and why do they no longer live in the front bedroom?

3. How does Mr. Addams respond to F. Jasmin's news that she is not returning after the wedding?

4. How does F. Jasmin end her last night with Berenice and John Henry?

5. Describe F. Jasmin's schoolmate. What does F. Jasmin discuss with her schoolmate? Where do they go together and what do they do when they get there?

6. What realization does F. Jasmin have about Mr. Addams in Part 2, Chapter 1? Why does she have this realization?

7. What is the point of Berenice's stories about her past husbands? Why does she share the story with F. Jasmin?

8. What does F. Jasmin ask her father when she returns home from her date? How does her father respond?

9. How does time become Frankie's enemy in Part 3?

10. Describe Frankie.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the author foreshadow the separation of Frankie, John Henry, and Berenice? Please use specific examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Why is the protagonist so mesmerized by the relationship between Jarvis and Janice and Berenice and her four husbands? Please use specific examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

What role does Janice's character play in the novel? Why does the author choose to introduce Janice to reader in the manner that he does? Why is Janice's character significant? Please use specific examples from the book.

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