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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. In Chapter 19, what does Hazel bring Myron for lunch?

2. When Miriam hears the news in Chapter 18, what is she in line to buy?

3. When did Myron come home from the war?

4. In Chapter 20, what year is it?

5. In Chapter 23, how old is Joan?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the visits August makes to see Derek affect her?

2. How did Hazel's father die?

3. Why does August want the children walked to school by armed gun members in Chapter 15?

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

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

6. What does Professor Mason, Joan's art teacher at Rhodes suggest her senior year?

7. Why is Derek arrested in Chapter 18?

8. What was Derek's trial like?

9. In Chapter 22, how does Miriam hear about the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

August is Derek’s mother. What type of relationship do August and Derek have? Why has August had to rearrange her life around her son? Why does August feel that she has failed her son?

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

Setting is the place and time where a novel takes place. What is the setting in Memphis: A Novel? How does the setting evoke feelings or set the mood in the book?

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