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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. Which of the following does C do at the beach with her father?

2. What number is on the dry-cleaning tag C’s father recovers?

3. To which of the following is the novel dedicated?

4. As which of the following does Reena describe C’s vision of Wayne?

5. From which of the following is the epigraph taken?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is C’s mother mad about the loss of the gift from Lu?

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

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

4. What does Cee report packing for her brother and herself for trips to the beach?

5. To what use do Cee and her brother put a hat she purloined, and why?

6. How does Cee’s brother understand No Man’s Land, and why?

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

8. How does Rose respond to the loss of her breasts to cancer?

9. To what profession does C’s father turn after leaving her and her mother?

10. Cee’s brother recounts a dream of Lu. What is the dream?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of The Furrows do so for the present novel? How or how not?

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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