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

2. Which of the following streets does Cee pass en route to school?

3. What word do C and her mother refuse to say to each other?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Of what do Cee’s mother and Grandma Lu typically talk?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

For what reason does one narrator’s grandmother hold them in such disdain? What in the novel suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of The Furrows. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Sources attest to the presence of The Furrows on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

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