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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. Where did Cas say she found the box of Lou's recipes?
2. How old was Sunny when Cas gave her her mother's recipes?
3. What does Rocky always have on his toast?
4. In "The First Property of Thirst," what opera does Rocky hear when he turns on the shortwave in the workshop?
5. To spatchcock chicken, how many incisions did Lou believe it took?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was Rocky disappointed when he visited Walden Pond?
2. After Schiff signs the requisitions for 200 people to start work on Manzanar, why is he worried about where to put them and how does Jay solve that problem?
3. Why was there a clinic at Three Chairs?
4. What is sense memory?
5. On Rocky's first walk after his wife died, what did he find?
6. What happens when Hauser, Schiff, and Macauley go to Three Chairs to get permission to build an airstrip?
7. Why are Rocky, Sunny, and Cas worried when they hear about the bombing at Pearl Harbor?
8. Why is Schiff invited to dinner at Three Chairs?
9. How did Sunny translate her mother's recipe books and cooking notes?
10. Why is Schiff in California?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Wiggins had a stroke during the writing of Properties of Thirst. What challenges did Wiggins have to overcome in order to finish the book? How was she able to overcome those challenges?
Essay Topic 2
Rocky had a challenging relationship with his father. What does the relationship Rocky had with his father and that he had with Stryker reveal about father/son relationships and their challenges?
Essay Topic 3
What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in Properties of Thirst? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters? Does it help readers connect with and understand characters?
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