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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 Gary cut his thumb with?

2. How does Enid anger Alfred at the end of the section?

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

4. Who does Caroline say Gary is nothing like?

5. What is the only economic activity Chip is good for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is a mixed grill important to Gary and his family?

2. Why is Chip disappointed in Denise?

3. What is Chip thinking about as he waits for his parents at the airport?

4. Describe Gitanas Misevious.

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

6. What kind of relationship does Chip think one should have with their parents?

7. How does Gitanas worry Chip in this section?

8. How did Denise determine that she didn't become a squishy liberal?

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

10. Why does Chip say he is depressed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Chip want to achieve as a person? Is he running away from the person he wants to be? In what way could it be said that what a person wants is different from what they need? How can Chip become the person he wants to be?

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

Look at the generation gap between younger and the older characters. What different experiences did both generations go through? What problems is the generation gap causing the relationships between the characters?

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