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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. Where does the protagonist’s mother place in a state beauty contest?

2. With which of the following does I end?

3. Approximately how much does the Kid weigh?

4. With which of the following works does the protagonist engage?

5. How old was the protagonist when her father died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is implied to have occasioned the interlocutor’s divorce?

2. Why had the protagonist hoped to get into the Coletta facility?

3. Why does the interlocutor remark that it is an oddity to claim Oppenheimer was stupid?

4. What vices does the protagonist deny having?

5. What, per the novel, is Gabelsberger?

6. Why was the protagonist’s father away from home when she was born?

7. How is the protagonist described upon admission to Stella Maris?

8. Why does the protagonist note having reacted badly to her childhood ophthalmologist?

9. What is the significance of the Fields Medal?

10. Why does the protagonist report not investing her inheritance?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the novel’s title.

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of Stella Maris? What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does McCarthy’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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