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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. Who is Joe Lincoln?
2. Who declines, for health reasons, to witness the death?
3. Where does Lee find Adam after Sam's execution?
4. Who is Mr. Olander?
5. What is placed in many areas of controversy, and around the prison?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who does Adam ask for assistance, and how does this person help Adam?
2. Who is the other visitor that Sam has at the prison shortly after Adam leaves?
3. What happens to the prison warden, and how does it affect Sam's execution?
4. Where and how does Adam react, or want to react, when he sees Lee?
5. Both Lee and Adam have news for each other. What is the news they share with each other?
6. Lee shares childhood memories with Adam. Lee shares the story of her brother, Eddie, and her grandfather, Sam, with Joe and Qunice Lincoln. Who are these people and how do they play such a vivid memory in Lee's past?
7. Explain how law students are helping to execute Adam's plan set up by Garner Goodman.
8. Where do Adam and Lee spend their weekend together, and what do they do on the weekend?
9. How does Governor McAllister agree to clemency for Sam?
10. Describe Donnie and Sam's last time together.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
'The Chamber' conveys many forms of foreshadowing. Pick one foreshadowing event, explain it in detail, and explain how it fits into the entire novel. What would happen if the foreshadowing event did not come to reality? How would that change your particular event within the story?
Essay Topic 2
Adam finds out much about his family from Lee; however, he does not learn all of this information until the age of sixteen. Adam, through Lee, learns how much of a dysfunctional family he belongs to. Dysfunctional families affect each person differently, depending upon how close you are to the dysfunction. How does being a part of a dysfunctional family affect Lee? How does it affect Adam? Give examples from the novel that prove this.
Essay Topic 3
Philip Naifeh and George Nugent are the superintendent and assistant superintendent, respectfully, of Parchman Prison. Each of these men holds a different stance toward running the prison and the execution process of death row inmates. What are the similarities and differences between these two individuals regarding how they run the prison, their organizational skills, the way they run the execution process, and the way they feel toward the execution process? Do inmates feel the same way toward these individuals? How can you tell? Give examples from the novel to support your answers.
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