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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 Bart offer Olivia during the beginning of their conversation?

2. How much money are Bart and Mary short on buying the better television?

3. What does Mary require of Bart before she will come home to him?

4. What items does Bart fill with gasoline siphoned from the gas tank of his car?

5. What did Bart's son die from?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Bart sees anonymous people.

2. As a kid, Bart had a .22 single shot rifle. What caused him to put away the rifle forever?

3. What is said during a PSA (Public Service Announcement) that causes Bart to start grinning?

4. Describe Bart's dreams on the night he sets the fires at the 784 construction site.

5. Why does Bart tell Olivia that she will never make it to Vegas?

6. What questions has Steve Ordner been asking employees of the Blue Ribbon Laundry about Bart?

7. Describe the simile that Bart is talking about on the morning that the Blue Ribbon Laundry is demolished.

8. What does Bart tell the owner of the gun shop is the reason he is buying the guns?

9. What happens to Bart as he is painting the smoke stack at the laundry?

10. Explain what Bart does to ensure that he cannot be followed from the fires he sets at the 784 construction site.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After seeing the woman die in the grocery store, Bart changed. How did Bart change?

Essay Topic 2

What does music mean to Bart?

Essay Topic 3

Why is the chapter "Stoptime, January 20, 1974" written as one long rambling thought?

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