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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 Lita’s wife's name?

2. What knickknack does Poppy note on sale at the French Market?

3. At what San Francisco bookstore do Poppy and Alex stop?

4. What type of soup does Alex prepare for Poppy when she is ill and cannot go on a Nordic trip?

5. What does Trey shorten Poppy’s name to while in Linfield?

Short Essay Questions

1. What opinion does Alex reportedly hold of Julian?

2. How does Poppy describe the story of Alex’s she reads in New Orleans?

3. How is the Hemingway-themed bar Poppy and Alex visit in San Francisco described?

4. What criteria does Poppy note Dani uses to rate fjords?

5. What challenges does Poppy note Alex finds to assignations in the shower?

6. What does Alex note wanting from life?

7. What does Alex tell Poppy about his mother while they miss their Nordic trip?

8. How is the hotel in which Poppy and Alex stay after leaving the Desert Rose described?

9. How does Poppy describe herself with Trey?

10. What does Poppy learn a “beginner” rafting trip entails?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Characters in People We Meet on Vacation confer at some length and on no few occasions about the experience of high school. What effect does this have on the novel, and how is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 2

There is repeated attention to chain restaurants throughout People We Meet On Vacation. What assumptions might underlie that focus, and what in the text substantiates that idea?

Essay Topic 3

Early on, the narrator asserts that, on vacation, “You’re whoever you want to be. You can do whatever you want” (1). Does the novel bear out the assertion? How or how not?

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