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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 is Mr. Jones angered to see Bo Jo wearing?

2. What do July and Bo Jo discuss after having sex?

3. What did Louella give up for marriage?

4. What kind of night is it at The Reef?

5. What does Bo Jo think of abortion?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what manner does Bo Jo tell his parents of his marriage, and how do they react?

2. How does July feel about Alice? What worries July during Alice and Charlie's visit?

3. Why does Mrs. Jones feel embarrassed by her house warming gift for Bo Jo and July?

4. How does July spend the evening before her marriage ceremony?

5. What details are given about July's marriage ceremony to Bo Jo?

6. What happens one night when July and Bo Jo go to the beach alone together?

7. Why does July go to a town that is fifty miles away?

8. What does Mrs. Jones teach July in the two weeks before she and Bo Jo are to move out?

9. What does July's grandmother give her after the wedding ceremony?

10. Before the pregnancy, what were July's and Bo Jo's plans for the future?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of deception in the novel "Mr and Mrs Bo Jo Jones." Who deceives whom and why? July often deceives others in the novel, but is she a deceitful character? Why or why not? Why does she feel that she has to deceive her loved ones, particularly at the beginning of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and interpret the subplots of the novel "Mr and Mrs Bo Jo Jones." Describe the Louella-Nicholas subplot. Describe the Mary Ann-Alan subplot. How do these subplots parallel July's own relationship with Bo Jo?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the issue of abortion in 1960s American and how abortion is depicted in the novel "Mr and Mrs Bo Jo Jones". What is the public opinion of abortion during the 1960s in America? How is it depicted in the novel? What do the principle characters think of abortion? Why might Head include Louella's abortion; what message might she have sent?

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