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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 does is the name of the song the calypso singer sings at Harry's table?

2. What exercise has Harry started doing?

3. What film does Cindy ask Harry if he has seen?

4. What kind of car has Nelson destroyed?

5. What news do Janice and Harry break to Bessie in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Harry not talk to the Murketts and the Fosnachts at the wedding reception?

2. How does Nelson react to his parents buying their own house?

3. What happens when Harry tries to visit Ruth again in chapter 3?

4. What does Harry remember about his bedside table drawer?

5. How does Bessie react to Harry and Janice buying their own house?

6. What do Nelson and Brew do at Slim's party?

7. What does Charlie say about the business?

8. What does Ma Springer call the family into the living room to talk about?

9. How does Harry react when he sees Charlie back at work?

10. What do Mim and Harry talk about at the wedding reception?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the generation gap between the younger and older characters. What different experiences did both generations go through? What problems is the generation gap causing the characters? Is the generational gap expressed in Rabbit is Rich particularly wide during this time or is a wide generational gap common to all ages?

Essay Topic 2

What major events had a profound effect on Rabbit's life and how did they change him? What does Rabbit still have to learn by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Rabbit's character to the person he is a the beginning of the story to the person he is at the end of the story:

1) What does Rabbit hope to achieve at the beginning of the story?

2) What events changes Rabbit ideas about life?

3) How has Rabbit's character changed by the end of the novel?

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