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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. How is Denise related to Chip?

2. What day does Alfred say he remembers in relation to the stock market crash?

3. Which of the following words does the author use to describe Caroline's father?

4. What does Caroline say is wrong with her?

5. Why did Chip get fired from his position at the university?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Caroline and Caleb gang up on Gary?

2. Why is Chip disappointed in Denise?

3. Why did Enid feel jealous of her neighbors while awaiting her third child?

4. Why does Caroline have a problem with Enid?

5. What were the differences between Gary and Chip as boys?

6. Why is Gary so angry when he finishes talking on the phone to his father?

7. How does Gitanas worry Chip in this section?

8. Why does Enid decide it is best not to have a porthole?

9. What does Chip think a depressed person should act like?

10. What does Gitanas's printout say about Lithuania?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what way are many of the relationships depicted in the novel considered unhealthy? What constitutes a healthy relationship?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the problems faced by one of the following characters. How did he or she learn to cope with their problem?

1. Denise.

2. Gary.

3. Chip.

4. Caroline.

Essay Topic 3

Examine family dynamics.

1. What are the relationships between the three siblings, and why do the students their relationship have developed like this?

2. What does it do to children that parents can't help but have parents? How can it affect them later on in life?

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