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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. Who is paying for Louella's lodging?

2. Where has July just been when Alice offers her a ride home?

3. What kind of injury does Gory have?

4. How many years after the main story does the epilogue take place?

5. What is the name of the doctor July goes to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bo Jo say to July after meeting Louella?

2. Following her argument with Bo Jo, what does July write in a letter to Horace?

3. Why don't Bo Jo and July want to get a divorce?

4. How is the distance between the Jones and Greher families evident at the picnic?

5. What opportunity does July sense both sets of parents see in the death of her son?

6. Why does July begin to find it hard to carry on her correspondence with Horace?

7. Why is July envious when she sees Alan and Mary Ann together?

8. What does July hear about Nicholas weeks after Louella leaves town?

9. What does Louella tell July in the letter that she sends her?

10. What do Bo Jo and July decide to do since he is uncomfortable with her parents paying the doctor's bills?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What struggles did July face throughout the novel? What caused these struggles for her? How did she overcome them?

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

Analyze and interpret the relationship between July and her parents, as well as the relationship between Bo Jo and his parents. Do their relationships suffer because of the pregnancy and marriage? If so, how? What is the relationship like between July and Bo Jo's parents?

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