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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 profession does C’s father’s second wife hold?

2. For which of the following films does Rose have a poster?

3. As which of the following was a portion of the novel previously published?

4. As what does Lu describe Cee sitting with her feet on the couch?

5. Which of the following does C note at the movie studio?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what do Cee’s parents apply themselves while their children play at the beach?

2. How do Cee and her high school friends distinguish themselves?

3. Where does C like to sit in a theater, and why does she rarely get to do so?

4. What reason does C posit for being sent by her mother to join her father and his new family?

5. What advice is C given by a nurse at the hospital?

6. What game do Cee and her brother play before they go swimming for the last time?

7. Why does C purpose to tell Reena about her apparition of Wayne?

8. What is the “gorgeous idiotic thing” Caleb does (67)?

9. With what moniker does C describe the early attendees of her mother’s events?

10. In the novel, how does life span integration work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mention is made throughout the novel of the weight among the Williams family of the term “lie.” From the text of the novel and its contexts of composition and publication, what is the significance of that assertion in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that The Furrows should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The front matter remarks that portions of the novel were previously published. Which portions were, and how does the present text of the novel indicate as much?

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