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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 Lauren's sermon about?

2. How much money does Lauren save?

3. What is the book about that Lauren lends to Joanne?

4. What does Lauren's stepmother's mother tell her stars are?

5. What does Lauren wish she takes with her on her journey?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are some families opposed to having guns?

2. Why are water peddlers dangerous?

3. What is the difference between Lauren's and Joanne's bedrooms?

4. Why does Lauren's dad return to Robledo?

5. Why is it safer to be dirty?

6. What does Emery tell Lauren about sharers having children?

7. Why does Lauren say that Zahra is useful?

8. What two things show how important the baptism is to the adults in the community?

9. What doesn't Lauren tell Curtis by Chapter 13?

10. What "family business" does Lauren's father believe in keeping private?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Lauren's relationship with Bankole. Does this seem like a relationship of equals or is Lauren searching for a father figure? What do Lauren and Bankole have in common? What obstacles seem to stand in their way?

Essay Topic 2

Explain whether or not you classify this novel as science fiction. What elements of science fiction are present?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the affects of racial differences in the novel. Does race seem to matter more or less than in the America Butler describes than it does now?

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