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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. How does Chiquita feel with her fancy clothes on?

2. Why does Inda have Roscoe?

3. Which part of the south is Chiquita from?

4. How is freeway driving like Inda's life?

5. What makes Inda's mind go blank?

Short Essay Questions

1. What motivates Chiquita to find her mother?

2. How does Michael reveal himself?

3. What is the state of Valerie and Brown's love lives?

4. What happens when Inda and Brown decide to leave?

5. What does Chiquita realize at this moment?

6. What does Chiquita tell Inda in the bathroom?

7. What has happens in the next few months?

8. What does Chiquita suggest Inda to do?

9. Why does Valerie meet with Walter?

10. What surprises Inda when she goes to Chiquita's room?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Valerie give up her dreams? How does she come to the realization that she is holding herself back?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the structure of the book:

How does the author use character and dialogue to drive the narrative?

Discuss elements of the narrative structure; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story?

How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

Essay Topic 3

The story is written along three different narrative lines, each from the point of view of a different character. Why do you think Dickey chose to write the story this way? How do you think the story would of changed if it was written from only one perspective?

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