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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. Canoe comments that the hounds will ______________________.

2. What news had Viv once given Professor Dipple and Cilla Whitney that displeased them?

3. What does Louise wear to have her pictures taken?

4. Who will teach the classes?

5. Where does Barbara hire the photographer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Viv's "beginning of the end" most significant for all the women?

2. What is the significance of the girls flirting with the boys in the park?

3. What topics do the women discuss in their group meeting today?

4. How does the author exhibit the circle of life in this section?

5. What does Louise share about Him trying to escape from the Center?

6. Describe the sad Christmas spent by the women at the hospice.

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

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

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

10. What was Viv's decision-making process about her life's direction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the taboo of homosexuality in the 1950s. Why would Viv's friends consider her ex-husband, Clark, to be less of a person because of his presumed homosexuality? How does the group of women accept the lesbian relationship of Carmen and Suzie several years later?

Essay Topic 2

In "Intervention" the author writes, "We have seen a lot, it's true, but know so little. How were we to learn? Years ago we were led down the primrose lane, then abandoned somewhere near the carp pond. Suffice it to say there is little nourishment here and the carp have grown strange cancers. When we look in their pond we see them beneath our own watery faces." What does the author want the reader to take away from these statements? What is your interpretation of the statements? 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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