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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 settles once Kate leaves?

2. Why does Kate think that Harold's wife is strange?

3. What relationship does Sharon have with John?

4. What is Kate scared of?

5. How did Kate feel after she had read the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has happened since John last saw Kate?

2. How does the novel end?

3. What ruins the trip?

4. What does John reveal to Aunt Emily?

5. Has John completely abandoned his search?

6. Who has died in John's family?

7. What is Kate's test after Lonnie dies?

8. How does the epilogue begin?

9. How does John feel about his family at the end of the book?

10. Why is Kate so angry with John?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Examine the friendship that Kate and John have before they are married.

2. Does their relationship ever turn physical before they get married? Do you think the fact that they lack a physical relationship will cause their relationship to fail?

3. How does the relationship change after Kate and John are married. Describe their new relationship.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

While the women in John's life obviously make demands of him, the men seem to impose little on John. What is the deeper connection between John and the following characters:

- Lonnie

- John's father

- Harold

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