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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 Will think that his constant hitting the golf ball out of bounds means in a larger sense?
2. Why did Allison travel to Linwood, NC?
3. How long does Allison think she has until she will need the heat from the stove?
4. What does Will Barrett see as a sign that the end of the world might be near at hand?
5. What does Allison buy the can of Brasso for?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when Will enters the greenhouse on his second visit?
2. Why does Allison buy herself new clothes when she gets to Linwood?
3. What does Lewis think is wrong with Will?
4. What is the self-discovery that Allison makes before she goes to Linwood?
5. Why does Allison want to move the old stove into her greenhouse?
6. What is it that Will Barrett realizes when he falls down during the golf game at the opening of the novel?
7. What does Will hope to prove with his experiment?
8. How do Allison and Will meet the first time?
9. When does Will realize who Allison is?
10. How does Allison get the large iron cook stove into the greenhouse?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Money can't buy happiness, but as some of the characters in the novel show, it can certainly buy other things. Discuss the theme of wealth in the novel, using Will, Allison, and Jack Curl to show how their different attitudes towards money provide different perspectives in the novel. Provide specific examples from the text to support your argument.
Essay Topic 2
The Second Coming is populated with a lot of single, older men. Discuss the role of the old men like Mr. Ryan, Mr. Arnold, and Father Weatherbee in the novel. What do you think these older men represent in the novel? Why are there so many of them? What happens to these old men in the end?
Essay Topic 3
In the novel, Allison has lost her memory because of the treatments she received at the mental institution and Will has repressed some troubling memories from his childhood that keep returning to him when he has his spells. Write an essay discussing the theme of memory from the novel, comparing and contrasting how different characters' memories shape the plot and affect how we as a reader react to those characters.
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