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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 Wilbur learn of Eliza's trip to China?

2. What color does Wilbur paint the oval office, after receiving his new middle name?

3. What song does Isadore like to sing while sweeping?

4. When confronting Wilbur about her inheritance, Eliza claims that who has become her real family?

5. What battle do Wilbur and Vera discuss?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Wilbur finishes speaking with Eliza in the afterlife, what does he plan to do and why?

2. What scientific discovery has been made by Dr. von Peterswald?

3. After Eliza is released from the mental institution, how does she express her anger to her brother?

4. In Indianapolis, what does it mean if you are not a Daffodil?

5. After gravity shifts for the first time, everyone is crying for help. What does Wilbur do?

6. Walter finds it disturbing to be around the religious members of the kidnapped Jesus cult for what reason?

7. When Melody plucks a chicken for a rooftop picnic, what happens to the feathers and why?

8. What does the King of Lake Maxinkuckee want Wilbur to sign?

9. Following the reunion orgy and separation from Wilbur, in what fashion does Eliza live her life?

10. What happens to Wilbur the first time that gravity shifts?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

As Wilbur gets older, the country begins a slow return to basics. Characters begin riding horses, hunting, and returning to simple entertainment such as Backgammon.

1) What prompts this return to basics?

2) How is this different from how Wilbur was raised?

3) How does Wilbur respond in this new environment?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the qualities of the women that appear throughout Wilbur's life.

1) Which women affect him?

2) Which women does he affect?

3) How do these women influence Wilbur's life?

Essay Topic 3

When Wilbur and Eliza's parents visit them for their 15th birthday, the visit does not go as planned. Write an essay examining why this visit forced the circumstances of the children to change.

1) How does a typical birthday celebration play out for Wilbur and Eliza?

2) Why was this birthday different?

3) Why are the characters prompted to change.

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