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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’s father do at the beach with her?

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

3. Which of the following was the lost child of Jeanie?

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

5. In what does C major in college?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Cee and her mother change their speech after her father leaves?

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

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

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

5. What is Reena’s summer job?

6. How does Cee’s mother explain the dandelion?

7. How des Cee prepare to face initial police questioning after the loss of her brother?

8. What precipitates the fight that prompts C’s mother to send her to visit her father?

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

10. Describe Cee’s first therapist’s office.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the novel’s title.

Essay Topic 2

Notably, Bernard leaves Charlotte and Cee. Within the contexts of the novel and your experience as a reader, is his decision to do so justified? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

How reliable are the narrators of the novel? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

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