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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 are K.D. and Arnette expecting?

2. What does Lone do after hearing the men plotting?

3. What are Richard and Anna contemplating?

4. What is one of Patricia's hobbies?

5. What does Soane want Connie to help her with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sort of prejudice does Patricia witness in Ruby?

2. Why do the Fleetwoods blame Lone for problems with their grandchildren, and what evidence is there that the situation was not Lone's fault?

3. What was Pallas Truelove's situation before she arrived at the Convent?

4. How do the women react to Lone's warning that men are coming to harm them?

5. What are some possible reasons for Connie spending so much time in the basement?

6. Why does Gigi receive fifty dollars for the box she finds under the bathtub?

7. What is Richard Misner angry about?

8. What do Arnette and Soane have in common in terms of being parents?

9. Why do some people believe that Senior Pullman's negative remarks are directed at Richard Misner?

10. What started the townspeople's idea that Billie was a wild child?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the point of view in the novel "Paradise". Does the story come from a single narrator or multiple narrators? Does the point of view remain the same throughout the novel, or does it change, and what effect does this have on the story?

Essay Topic 3

Could the major conflict in the novel have been resolved any other way, or was the final outcome inevitable?

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