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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 Megan's father do when Patrick tells him Megan won't marry him?

2. What item does Megan recall caused her to break out in a cold sweat in Chapter 5?

3. What does Patrick ask Megan to get him when he wakes up in the morning?

4. Who refuses to eat the turkey at Thanksgiving dinner?

5. How does the clay feel in Megan's hands when she's working with it?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Timmy interrupt Megan and Pat's romantic evening, and why?

2. Why does Patrick dismiss any possibility of living with Megan before marriage?

3. What does Megan decide she needs soon after Timmy leaves?

4. How does Megan justify the TV being located in Pat's room?

5. Why did Tilly move to Williamsburg?

6. What does Megan admit to looking at the night of her first date with Patrick?

7. What does Megan think Patrick's house would be a perfect setting for?

8. Why does Patrick put the animated film on the TV first?

9. Why doesn't Megan kiss Timmy good-bye?

10. How does Patrick manage to get soaked in the rain shower?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Megan and Patrick invite their families over for a joint Thanksgiving meal. Both sets of parents quickly begin to meddle in the affairs of their children, encouraging marriage. Discuss the parents' role in the issues faced by Megan and Patrick concerning marriage.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Dave as Patrick's foil.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme that love overcomes all obstacles in regards to the novel "Thanksgiving". In what way does Megan's and Patrick's love overcome obstacles, and what obstacles do they overcome?

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