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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 song does Harriet sing her favorite verse of in Chapter 24?
2. What is the name of Patty Jane's new business?
3. What happens to Harriet while riding the bus in Chapter 14?
4. What does Nora wonder about her mother and Clyde in Chapter 17?
5. What does Patty Jane go to school to become in Chapter 12?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Ione go in Chapter 25? What does she learn when she returns home?
2. How does Thor's reappearance affect Patty Jane and Clyde's relationship in Chapter 23?
3. Describe Reese and Harriet's wedding in Chapter 24.
4. Why does Patty Jane urge Harriet to see a doctor in Chapter 25? What do Patty Jane and Nora discover one day after Harriet fails to return from napping?
5. Why does Harriet hope to find Merry in Chapter 21? Who does Harriet spot with the crazy woman in Chapter 21?
6. What is Harriet doing when she runs into Reese in Chapter 18? What does Reese give her?
7. In Chapter 13, why does Clyde insist he and Patty Jane cannot have a relationship?
8. What business does Patty Jane start in Chapter 11?
9. What do the doctors tell Ione and Patty Jane about Thor's condition in Chapter 23?
10. What happens to Harriet while she is riding on a bus in Chapter 14? Where does Harriet go afterward?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the motif of alcoholism in the novel "Patty Jane's House of Curl." What are some examples of when alcohol leads to problems for the characters, particularly Harriet. How did Patty Jane's and Harriet's parents' alcoholism affect them?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the motif of grief in the novel. What are some examples of grief or grieving in the novel? Why are the characters grieving in these examples?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Patty Jane's beauty salon, House of Curl. Why does she open this business? How does running this business help Patty Jane grieve the loss of her husband? Who does she meet because of the beauty parlor?
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