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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. How long has Hazel's family live in the North Memphis neighborhood called Douglass?

2. What color bandanas do the Douglass Park Bishops wear tried around their biceps?

3. Who comes to the North house in Chapter 24 early in the morning?

4. What is Hazel working on in Chapter 14?

5. Why is Stanley not able to walk Miriam down the aisle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the conditions like when Hazel's mother sends her to the store in Chpater 13?

2. What flood has affected Memphis in 1937?

3. How long has Miss Dawn known August?

4. How did Hazel's father die?

5. When Joan is a junior in high school, what art class is she taking?

6. How does Myron die?

7. What role does Hazel play in her mother's business?

8. What shop is a staple in the North Memphis neighborhood where Hazel lives?

9. How does Mya react when the World Trade Center towers fell and the Pentagon was attacked?

10. When did Miriam graduate from nursing school, and what was her graduation ceremony like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What points of view are used in Memphis: A Novel? How do these points of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does changing the point of view help readers connect with and understand the characters?

Essay Topic 2

Joan is a girl of ten at the beginning of Memphis: A Novel and a young lady preparing for college at the end of the book. How do the events in the book help Joan mature and grow in the novel? What role does learning to forgive have in her growth?

Essay Topic 3

August reveals information about Derek’s father during Derek’s murder trial. What information does August reveal? What does that information reveal about the relationship Derek had with his father and how it still affects him?

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