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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. Where does Mavis's mother live?

2. Who is the nephew of the Morgan twins?

3. What is the occupation of Roger Best?

4. Who stops to ask if Sweetie Fleetwood needs a ride?

5. What is Gigi searching for when she arrives in Ruby?

Short Essay Questions

1. When there is a problem in Ruby who handles it?

2. What causes the men to think that the women at the Convent are perhaps not as hard working as the women in Ruby?

3. Why did Deek tell Roger to make sure all part's of Deek's son's funeral were black?

4. How does Gigi become stranded at the convent?

5. Why do the men from Ruby go to the Convent?

6. What are some of town situations that Dovey Morgan thinks about?

7. What event cuts short Mavis's reunion upon arriving back at the Convent after a month's absence?

8. Why do some of the residents leave Haven to found the town of Ruby?

9. Why does Deek drive to the bank even though it is a short distance?

10. Why is there instant animosity between Mavis and Gigi?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foreshadowing is an important literary tool. Examine the text for instances of foreshadowing. If instances are present, how do they impact the plot? If there are no instances of foreshadowing, a rare occurrence in a novel, how does the absence of foreshadowing affect the reader's reception of the story?

Essay Topic 2

How do the people of Ruby recreate the same prejudices and forms of discrimination that the founders were trying to escape?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the final line of the book. How does the final line of the book relate to the entire preceding novel? How does this conception of paradise help explain the novel's title?

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