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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 does Aunt Emily constantly keep her eye on?

2. What indicates a close relationship between John and his aunt?

3. Why does John go into the office early at the beginning of Chapter 2?

4. Why is it interesting that Sharon and John keep the books they are reading a secret from one another?

5. When does Kate think people are "real" with one another?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does John do in order to escape from his life?

2. How does John feel about Walter, Kate's fiance?

3. What important question does John ask Kate in this chapter?

4. Where does John live?

5. Who has Kate started seeing to help with her depression?

6. Where does John invite Kate to go with him? What is her response?

7. What is very apparent about John and Aunt Emily's relationship?

8. Who does John feel that he has fallen in love with?

9. Why is Lonnie fasting?

10. What does Sharon try to establish about the trip?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is John and Kate's journey to Chicago symbolic of? How does their relationship change after they return to New Orleans?

Essay Topic 2

Strict Southern guidelines prescribe that women and men act a certain way. Kate and John often find themselves searching for their place in a society that does not accept them. How have John and Kate made themselves outsides in New Orleans society?

1. Describe 2 different times each character alienates themselves.

2. Describe 2 times that New Orleans society outcasts Kate and John.

Essay Topic 3

1. Compare Harold's wife to a typical Southern housewife. How do their actions and behaviors differ from one another?

2. Why is Kate so put out by Harold's wife?

3. Because Kate constantly looks to find her freedom from New Orleans society, is it interesting that Kate is shocked by Harold's wife's actions?

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