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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 type of meeting are the women having at the hospice?

2. What is the name of the business owned by the person in #130?

3. What is the most important thing the women think their children should have?

4. What do the women fear that Him will discover?

5. What does Barbara place side-by-side in this section?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why will the women spend Christmas at the hospice?

2. How does Viv reconcile leaving school and getting married?

3. What is the reason for the party Canoe is hosting today?

4. What is the setting of this section?

5. How do the women feel about their lives since giving birth to their daughters?

6. How did Viv sell herself out by giving in to societal norms?

7. What is the setting for this section?

8. What do the women discuss about the properties of words and lines they read?

9. Who is the popular child-rearing expert whose advice the women closely follow?

10. How does Louise's photo shoot come to an end?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do the women mean by "Beginning of the End" when they tell each other their life stories? Viv is the last to tell her "Beginning of the End" story and it seems most appropriate for all the women whose endings actually began at the beginnings. What does the author mean by this?

Essay Topic 2

Esther is clearly different from all the other women in the group. Describe Esther's role in the story and why the author chose to insert her character, even if for just a short while, in the novel. What can the other women learn from Esther? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

OUR KIND is a classic circle of life story. What does that classification entail? Why does this novel fit into this category? Explain.

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