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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. Why does Charlotte resign from the Heavenly Hash Houses?

2. Why is the Fluxion coffee shop desirable for confidential conversations?

3. What does Qwill admit he loved in regards to Joy?

4. What isn't a question that Qwill was asking himself?

5. About what does Qwill want to ask his buddy at the police?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story involving the other people at the Penniman estate in regards to the suicides?

2. What does Qwill become determined to do and why?

3. Why does Qwill stop and listen to the gypsy woman? What does she tell Qwill?

4. What mistake does Qwill make in reference to potting, and what does that kind of potter do?

5. What does Qwill discover when he returns to Maus Haus, and why does this leave Qwill both distraught and troubled?

6. Why does the idea of the Living Glaze being Joy's creation make sense?

7. With whom had Hixie been having an affair and why had she ended it?

8. Why will nobody ever find the bodies of the two people whom Dan has killed?

9. What function does lead serve in regards to pottery?

10. What attributes allow the Fluxion coffee shop to be a confidential place?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the idea of a place run specifically for the arts of which any artist could be a part. Would this be a benefit to society? Why or why not? What is the likelihood of such a place actually existing? Why is this?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the artists' lack of desire to talk about what had happened when Penniman owned the pottery. Why would it be a sore spot for them to go over it again and again?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss some mythology behind pottery. What common pottery myths are accepted as genuine fact? Explain how you went about exposing these "potters myths."

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