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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. Aaron notes his apartment has the smell of which of the following?
2. Which of the following languages does Aaron note Baby Freddy’s mother is learning?
3. Which of the following is a category on Thomas’s life chart?
4. With whom of the following does Aaron note Eric is playing cards?
5. Which of the following sports does Aaron note Baby Freddy prefers?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what reasons does Me-Crazy have the sobriquet?
2. What does Thomas note liking about Aaron after noting a bad birthday experience to him?
3. What reasons does Aaron give for calling Brendan his “sort of best friend” (5)?
4. What occupations does Aaron note Elsie holds?
5. What does Aaron anticipate on Genevieve’s return from New Orleans?
6. For what reason does Aaron note Baby Freddy is disallowed from being the hunter in games of manhunt?
7. Why does Thomas note his high school track field is a place of importance for him?
8. What complaints does Aaron have regarding the shirts Thomas makes available to him?
9. What advice does Eric report to Aaron their father would have given for approaching sex?
10. What fate does Aaron note awaits the community center shirts he and his friends receive at Family Day?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What effect does the unnumbered and unnamed section at the beginning of Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, have on the reader? How is the effect achieved?
Essay Topic 2
If there is a single, overarching message or discourse or moral to the novel, what is it? What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Thomas comments, “Doctors should work on erasing clowns. Period,” echoing Aaron’s distaste (86). What function does the seemingly throw-away comment serve, and how does it serve that function?
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