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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 plays as C and her father go to the beach with his second wife and stepdaughter?
2. With which of the following does I, 7 begin?
3. In which of the following places do Cee’s parents find her brother’s drawings?
4. Which of the following words does Cee assume her father would say about her brother’s condition?
5. Which of the following afflicts C?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Rose respond to the loss of her breasts to cancer?
2. Why is C’s mother mad about the loss of the gift from Lu?
3. How does Cee’s mother explain the dandelion?
4. Where does C like to sit in a theater, and why does she rarely get to do so?
5. To what do Cee’s parents apply themselves while their children play at the beach?
6. What is implied to have been the topic of conversation in the last video Cee and her parents watch together?
7. Of what do Cee’s mother and Grandma Lu typically talk?
8. Cee’s brother recounts a dream of Lu. What is the dream?
9. What problem in Cee’s mother’s painting does Cee identify?
10. What advice is C given by a nurse at the hospital?
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
Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in The Furrows? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?
Essay Topic 3
What character is the protagonist of The Furrows? How does the novel support such an assertion?
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