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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Victoria ask Dwayne when she sees him?
2. What does Raymond do to console Victoria?
3. What does Guthrie give Judy as the reason for coming over to her house?
4. What does Victoria do when she is talking to the McPheron brothers?
5. Where does Victoria take a part-time job?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
We can infer that Victoria is accustomed to verbal abuse from her mother because she does not seem alarmed until her mother says she will kick Victoria out of the house. Prior to that, Victoria listened to her mother's abusive name calling as if it were a normal occurrence.
1. Do you think verbal fighting and name calling is abuse? Do you think it should be illegal for a parent to do that? Why or why not?
2. How do you think Victoria's mother's verbal abuse of her daughter affects her daughter? Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. Why do you think a parent would kick a daughter out of the house is she became pregnant? Discuss what you would do if Victoria was your daughter.
Essay Topic 2
Guthrie goes upstairs and into the room where his wife, Ella, lies in bed. He asks if she wants anything, but she does not answer. Guthrie leaves the room and Ella looks around before folding her arm across her face. Guthrie leaves the house and drives away in his pickup truck.
1. Do you think Ella Guthrie is depressed? Why or why not? Use examples from the text to support your answer.
2. How do you think younger children such as Ike and Bobby might feel about their mother? Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. If Tom Guthrie was a friend of yours what would you advise him to do? Use examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss one of the following:
1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Plainsong.
2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Plainsong. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Plainsong. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
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