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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 Cliff Baxter do when Annie tries to protect Keith Landry?

2. What are Keith and Annie doing when Cliff Baxter bursts into their room?

3. What prevents Keith and Annie from fleeing Ohio?

4. Where does Annie tell her sister they would be passing through on the way to Florida?

5. Who is Schenley?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Cliff Baxter finds Keith and Annie?

2. What warning do Keith and Annie get from Annie's brother-in-law, and how do Keith and Annie respond to it?

3. Describe Annie's visit to Keith Landry's house.

4. What is Keith Landry's response to Charlie Adair's and the President's offer?

5. How do Keith and Annie end up in a motel in Toledo?

6. Describe Keith Landry and Annie's meeting in Chapter 20.

7. What does Charlie Adair want Keith Landry to do?

8. What does Keith Landry find when he arrives in Spencerville?

9. What does Keith Landry do while he is waiting for the time of his rendezvous with Annie?

10. How does Cliff Baxter react when he hears about the meeting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How American is Spencerville? What makes it American? What makes it something else? How does this novel embody Americanness?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

This book was written in 1995, when the internet was just becoming a fact of life among Americans. How would this book be different if it took place today?

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