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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. Where does Claire go to college?

2. Who is the father of Myra's baby?

3. What does Joe ask Will for when Will finds him?

4. What do Henry and Myra do when he gets to New York?

5. What does Claire tell Henry she thinks about him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Henry's visit to Denver to see Claire.

2. What gets Henry out of New York?

3. Describe Solstice's death.

4. Why does Henry return to New York?

5. Describe Henry's state, in Chapter 13, as he drives eastward.

6. What is Grace's opinion of Henry's relationship with Claire?

7. What does Henry lose on his way home?

8. What does Henry remember of his father at the funeral?

9. What does Myra ask Henry to do about her pregnancy?

10. What had Will done in the war?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Henry's relationship with his family? In what ways is he a misfit? In what ways is he one of them?

Essay Topic 2

What does drinking represent in 'Fool's Progress'? What ideas or feelings is it associated with? What is Henry doing by drinking? Celebrating something, hiding something, avoiding something? What is it, and how does Abbey describe it?

Essay Topic 3

How important is Henry's childhood on the events that followed? What aspects of it were most formative? What formative influences did he feel later in life?

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