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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 Keith Landry drive around to look at in Chapter 5?

2. What precedent is there for the thing Cliff Baxter forces Sherry Kolarik to do?

3. What is Annie afraid of when she sees Keith Landry?

4. What does Annie Baxter have in her pocket when we meet her?

5. What does Annie Baxter do when she can't get her husband on the phone?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Keith Landry's relationship with Billy Marlon?

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

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

4. What does Keith Landry ultimately do with his car?

5. Describe Keith Landry's experience at the Landry family Labor Day gathering.

6. What was Keith Landry's relationship with Cliff Baxter in high school?

7. Describe the reunion between Jeffrey Porter and Keith Landry.

8. Describe the conflict that is being brewed as Keith Landry spends more time in Spencerville--and how it seems likely to be settled.

9. What are Keith Landry's feelings as we meet him?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 2

Is Spencerville a Vietnam novel? What role does Vietnam play in the novel? How much is war part of Spencerville? Trace the war imagery and themes through the novel.

Essay Topic 3

How will Keith Landry be a different partner for Annie than Cliff Baxter was? What kind of lover will he be? What value does Annie still have in Keith Landry's eyes, after her mistreatment at Cliff Baxter's hands?

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