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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 caused Keith Landry to return home?

2. What is the significance of the place Keith Landry goes after his visit?

3. What is Keith Landry feeling when he returns?

4. What does Keith Landry think his presence means for Annie?

5. What doe Keith Landry arrange at the end of Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the meeting between Annie and Keith Landry.

2. What does Keith Landry find when he returns home from the meeting at the Lutheran Church?

3. What does Keith Landry do now that he is back in his old hometown?

4. How does Annie Baxter conclude that her husband is having an affair?

5. What is Cliff Baxter's relationship with Sherry Kolarik?

6. What happens after Keith Landry gives Billy Marlon a ride home?

7. What is Keith Landry invited to do at the dinner he has at the Porter household?

8. How does Cliff Baxter's presence influence Keith Landry's relationship with his car?

9. Describe the relationship between Annie and Cliff Baxter.

10. Describe the farm Keith Landry returns to in Spencerville.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Having just finished his work in the Cold War, Keith Landry returns home to find a new opposition with the brutal police chief. How much does this opposition prolong the Cold War Keith Landry had been part of fighting? Compare and contrast Cliff Baxter and the Soviet Union. Is Cliff Baxter a symbol of repressive regimes?

Essay Topic 2

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 3

How do you account for Cliff Baxter's brutal temperament? Is it a fact of nature, an aberration in human psychology, a product of circumstances, or is there some other cause for it? How does the author account for it?

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