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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. Why is Lt. Jay Svevo late arriving in Lone Pine to work with Schiff?

2. What French cookbooks did Lou have?

3. What color cape is Sunny wearing when Hauser, Schiff, and Macauley drive up to Three Chairs?

4. What color eyes do members of the Rhodes family have?

5. What time would Schiff's family eat their evening meal?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sunny translate her mother's recipe books and cooking notes?

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. On Rocky's first walk after his wife died, what did he find?

4. What were the first things Sunny taught herself to cook?

5. What phrase did Sunny's mother believe about food, and who originated the catchphrase?

6. How did Sunny, Tops, Cas, and Stryker create their own patterns of eating?

7. Why is Schiff in California?

8. What does Lou's look like?

9. How did Sunny try to reconstruct her mother?

10. What letter does Cas have from Stryker that came the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sunny and Stryker are twins. What type of relationship do they have? What role does Sunny have to play in their relationship and why?

Essay Topic 2

Schiff and Sunny argue, and he nearly gives up on having a relationship with her. What inciting event brings them back together and why?

Essay Topic 3

Setting is the place and time where a narrative takes place. What is the main setting in Properties of Thirst? How does the setting evoke feelings or set the mood in the book?

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