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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 is this ironic?

2. Why is the day Aunt Emily yells at John special?

3. What does Kate think is the worst thing that can happen?

4. What does Aunt Emily think of her family?

5. What does Kate wish to be in Chicago?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does John think everyone is dead?

2. What does John reveal to Aunt Emily?

3. What does the reader learn about Aunt Emily?

4. How does John treat Kate?

5. Why does John flirt with Joyce?

6. Who does John decide to call after he is done speaking with his aunt on the phone?

7. What does Aunt Emily ask of John?

8. Why is Aunt Emily upset with John at the beginning of the chapter?

9. When John talks to Kate, what does she say she was really trying to do?

10. Who has died in John's family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which theme did you think was the most important in the book?

Describe the theme and give three examples of times that it is explored by the characters in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

1. John watches movie and television shows to escape his everyday, ordinary life in New Orleans, Louisiana. How does watching movies help John to escape? Why do you think John needs an escape from his life? What aspects might he want to leave behind?

2. Compare and Contrast John's feelings about movies and Lonnie's view of movies.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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