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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 the old woman feed the meat to in the end of Weather in San Francisco?

2. Who wrote Welcoming the Board of Directors?

3. The story of Happy Endings is structured similarly to what?

4. What does the daughter of the lord become obsessed with finding in The Blue Jar?

5. What rises in the water at the end of On Hope?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does On Hope end? Where is the gypsy in the end of the narrative?

2. What event has taken place in the beginning of Death of the Right Fielder? What actions do the characters take?

3. How is the narrative structured in the story Happy Endings? What are the first scenarios like?

4. Describe the themes and political motif in One of These Days. What other story in the collection shares similar themes?

5. What is the central plot in The Elephant? Why does the protagonist choose to build an inflatable elephant?

6. What is the girl given in The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket? Why is she excited?

7. Describe the structure of Welcoming the Board of Directors. How does the author use metaphor in the narrative?

8. What is the setting of Blue? What is troubling the citizens in the narrative?

9. What do the boy and his father go to do after getting his new cap in Blackberries? What does this lead to?

10. What unifies the stories At the River, The Blue Jar, Gregory and Iguana Hunting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the setting, characters, and themes in An Insolvable Problem of Genetics. What about the setting informs the characters' racial bias?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the settings, characters, and themes presented in The Weather in San Francisco and Blue. What is Brautigan's most famous work and how does The Weather in San Francisco relate to it?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of feminism in Disappearing, A Lover's Ear and By the Creek. What feminist traits do each of the protagonists reflect?

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