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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 kind of school does Henry Lightcap attend?

2. What is Henry annoyed by after Elaine leaves?

3. Where are Henry and Myra arriving, in the scene Henry remembers, in Chapter 10?

4. How did the game Henry and Will and their friends played against their rivals end?

5. Why did Henry begin hitchhiking?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Roggoway, and what is Henry's interaction with him?

2. Describe Henry's house in El Culito.

3. What causes Henry Lightcap to think of Red Ginter?

4. Describe Henry's relationships at the beginning of the novel.

5. What does Henry do after Elaine leaves?

6. How does Henry get across the country without much money?

7. What is Henry's interaction with Don Williams?

8. What does Henry think about Albuquerque when he stops there?

9. Who is Red Ginter and what role does he play in Henry Lightcap's childhood?

10. What does Henry find when he gets to the bank?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what way is Joe's desire to be buried with his relatives a measure of Henry's life? In what ways is it insufficient as a measure of the value of a person's life, to be buried with relatives? What is proposed instead, as a measure of value?

Essay Topic 2

In what way is the prelude a representation of the book as a whole? What theme does it introduce, and how is that theme developed?

Essay Topic 3

Henry Lightcap is a Hedonist of the first order--how does Abbey feel about sensual pleasures, and is there a contradiction in *reading* about pleasures of the flesh?

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