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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 time would Schiff's family eat their evening meal?

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

3. "In the Second Property of Thirst," how does Los Angeles compare in population to other United States cities?

4. In "The Second Property of Thirst," how many people show up at Lou's without calling ahead and Sunny asks Schiff to help serve?

5. What does Cas always put in coffee when she drinks it?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the twins go to Europe and what did they do there?

3. What is sense memory?

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

5. How did Sunny try to reconstruct her mother?

6. What happens when Hauser, Schiff, and Macauley go to Three Chairs to get permission to build an airstrip?

7. When the internees arrive, what does Sunny want to say to Schiff, and why does she not say it?

8. Why does Rocky's ranch have a bell tower?

9. Why was there a clinic at Three Chairs?

10. Why are Rocky, Sunny, and Cas worried when they hear about the bombing at Pearl Harbor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sunny's aunt is Caswell Rhodes, known as Cas. What did Cas give up to help her brother with his children? How does Wiggins reveal the type of person she is and her role in Properties of Thirst?

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

L.A. took the water from the Owens Valley. Why was Rocky not able to stop L.A. from taking the water?

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