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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. In their life together, how does John help Kate?

2. What does Aunt Emily enjoy giving?

3. To John, what has settled everywhere after John's showdown with Aunt Emily?

4. What does John seem to hate about New Orleans?

5. How is this ironic?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Kate like Harold's wife?

2. Why is Kate so happy in Chicago?

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

4. What does John ask Kate to deliver for him?

5. How does the novel end?

6. Why does Kate want to go to Chicago with John?

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

8. How does the epilogue begin?

9. What does the reader learn about Aunt Emily?

10. What has happened since John last saw Kate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

1. John and Lonnie have a special way of communicating with one another that no one else understands. How do the two brothers communicate with one another?

2. How do movies play apart in the relationship that the brothers share? Explain why Lonnie might to relate to movies the way John does.

3. Why is death a focus in their relationship?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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