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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 physical imperfection does Ariel exhibit?

2. Where do Frank and Jake run to after seeing the dead body at the train tracks?

3. What river flows through the town of New Bremen?

4. What two queries does Frank make of Karl during the ride in the Triumph?

5. When Warren Redstone asks Frank what kind of name Drum is, what is Frank's reply?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Axel's request of Jake at the hospital reveal differences between Frank and Jake?

2. What is ironic about Lise's reaction to Frank's grabbing of her shoulder when they succeed in moving the huge rock in her garden?

3. What is the outcome of Nathan's and Gus' search for Travis Klement, the man they know to have beaten his wife and son?

4. Where do Frank and Jake go just before Bobby Cole's funeral, and how does Jake's suit sleeve get ripped?

5. What happens within the conversation Frank overhears between Nathan and Emil after Emil's return from the private hospital?

6. How does Frank convince his dad to give him the tire iron for the boys' walk home from the jail and what do they subsequently do with it?

7. What is revealed about the difference between Frank's and Jake's characters in the moment when they are invited by Gus and Officer Doyle to set off fireworks?

8. What lengths has Gus gone to in order to make sure Nathan does not know of the card games he runs in the basement of the church?

9. How does Officer Doyle's search of Warren Redstone's lean-to sway the reader's opinion of Warren Redstone's character?

10. What are the reasons Officer Doyle gives for finding Bobby Cole's death suspicious?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Like many other coming-of-age books and movies, Ordinary Grace presents the loss of innocence as a theme. Trace Frank's loss of innocence over the course of the novel's narrative. What is the author's purpose for depicting Frank's, as well as other characters', loss of innocence throughout the novel?

Essay Topic 2

How does Krueger depict the intolerance within American society in the early 1960s? Which characters are used to express that intolerance and what are the related messages about intolerance that are sent by the author across these instances?

Essay Topic 3

Krueger chooses to leave some mysteries in the novel unsolved for the reader, including Karl Brandt's death and Bobby Cole's death. Analyze the ambiguities within these two incidents and use your analysis to state the author's purpose in leaving some of the novel's mysteries unsolved.

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