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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 sauce does Bee note being used in Bee’s childhood home?

2. Which of the following is labeled as a metaphor in “Sixteen Metaphors”?

3. Which of the following does Max claim to have studied?

4. As whom does Bee dress for Halloween?

5. Which of the following does Max provide for Alison?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Bee’s mother pinch Bee’s nose?

2. What does Bee report hating most?

3. What event gets Bee grounded?

4. In the commuting metaphor, why is the person addressed assumed to think the other driver took an exit?

5. What was Bee’s mother’s profession?

6. Why does the editor of the Introductory Guide note having frozen posts from new users?

7. What does Bee report learning from major coursework?

8. What is the Meat-in-Transit policy?

9. What is reported to matter least among the metaphors (247)?

10. What does Max note Alison watches online?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the labeling scheme at work in Rejection? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the anthology supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 3

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of Rejection do so for the present anthology? How or how not?

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