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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Elsie show to Dick?
(a) Her enlarged stomach.
(b) Plans for a house.
(c) Her new Blackberry.
(d) Old journals.
2. Who arrives at Elsie's house while Dick is still there?
(a) Joxer.
(b) Parker.
(c) Mary Scanlon.
(d) May.
3. Which of the following does Dick NOT plan to do with May tonight?
(a) Give her a drink to get her in a better mood.
(b) Tell her things are not too bad.
(c) Take her to bed.
(d) Tell her he is leaving her.
4. Who does Dick see Marie having sex with?
(a) Schuyler.
(b) Joxer.
(c) Parker.
(d) Eddie.
5. What do Dick and Elsie talk about in the blue canoe?
(a) Elsie's pregnancy.
(b) Dick's divorce.
(c) Dick's boat.
(d) Elsie's new job.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens to Elsie on board the Spartina as she and Dick talk?
2. What is Dick's overall demeanor as the story ends?
3. What does Elsie want to show Dick?
4. Which of the following does Elsie NOT tell Dick?
5. Who does May tell Dick has called him?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain how the author uses the technique of flashbacks in Chapter 50.
2. How does Schuyler's documentary put Dick in an unfavorable light?
3. How does Dick feel himself becoming more like the people he used to hate?
4. What is the symbolism of the spartina and the Wedding Cake that are still intact after the hurricane?
5. How does the strain of Dick's infidelity begin to weigh on his mind?
6. What news does Elsie tell Dick about her life and how things are surprisingly working out to her benefit?
7. What happens in Chapter 44 that exacerbates Dick's gloomy feelings when he is on shore?
8. How does Elsie's refusal to have sex again with Dick signal an attempt to help him break a destructive pattern?
9. How do Dick's conflicted feelings about Parker continue to exhibit in Chapter 44?
10. What is May's response to Dick when he tells her about his affair with Elsie?
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