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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 gift does Ione give Harriet in Chapter 25?
2. Where is Ione's gift to Harriet in Chapter 25 from?
3. What does Reese arrange for Harriet in Chapter 19?
4. Who is the first to greet Ione in Chapter 25?
5. Why is the House of Curl so busy in Chapter 25?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Ione go in Chapter 25? What does she learn when she returns home?
2. Where does Harriet awake in Chapter 17? How does she figure out how she got to this place? What does Harriet realize when she looks at the newspaper?
3. What prompts Patty Jane to kick Harriet out in Chapter 15?
4. What does Patty Jane discover one day when she returns home in Chapter 11? Why are Patty Jane and Ione especially worried?
5. Why does Patty Jane write to Avel's sisters in Chapter 11?
6. What happens to Harriet while she is riding on a bus in Chapter 14? Where does Harriet go afterward?
7. 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?
8. What does Harriet realize about drinking in Chapter 14? How does Patty Jane react when Harriet returns home drunk?
9. What business does Patty Jane start in Chapter 11?
10. Where do Reese, Clyde, and Harriet find Thor at Temple Curry's home? What does Temple tell them about her past and how she came to be with Thor?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the death and illness motif in "Patty Jane's House of Curl." Who dies in the novel and how do these deaths affect the characters and plot? What are the reasons for their deaths? What do the reactions of the loved ones left behind reveal of their relationships? How does Thor's injury affect his life and the lives of the other characters?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the motif of marriage in the novel. Describe Patty Jane's marriage to Thor. Describe Harriet's marriage to Reese. Are these successful marriages? What do these characters think of marriage?
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