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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 Kate wish to be in Chicago?
2. In their life together, how does John help Kate?
3. What does John introduce Kate as at the end of the chapter?
4. What does Sam think must immediately happen?
5. What settles once Kate leaves?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does John flirt with Joyce?
2. What does the reader learn about Aunt Emily?
3. What does John realize about his life search?
4. What has happened since John last saw Kate?
5. What does Kate think the worst that can happen to John is?
6. When John talks to Kate, what does she say she was really trying to do?
7. Why doesn't Kate like Harold's wife?
8. How does John feel about his family at the end of the book?
9. Why is Kate so angry with John?
10. What does John reveal to Aunt Emily?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How are moviegoers outsiders to the rest of the community? Give examples of other groups that are considered loners or outsiders in your community. Why are these people outsiders? Have they made themselves outsiders or has the larger society forced them to become outsiders?
Essay Topic 2
Answer one of the following:
1. Why does John carry on meaningless relationships with many women?
2. Site three examples of how Aunt Emily attempts to control John's life.
3. Who were the men that proposed to Kate? Take two of them and explain why they decided to ask for her hand.
Essay Topic 3
1. Freedom is another central theme of the novel. Both John and Kate struggle to find their own independence in different ways. How are John and Kate's searches for independence similar?
2. Describe how John's assertion of manhood and determination to create a relationship with Kate, leads to Kate's oppression.
3. Is this John or Kate's fault?
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