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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 streets does Cee pass en route to school?

2. What color is the vase in Cee’s family’s summer rental?

3. Which of the following makes of car does Cee’s family own?

4. Which of the following words does Cee assume her father would say about her brother’s condition?

5. From which of the following does Jacinta come?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. For what reasons does C accuse Reena and her friends of racism?

4. How is the carnival-ride barker C sees dressed?

5. What is implied to have been the topic of conversation in the last video Cee and her parents watch together?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What character is the protagonist of The Furrows? How does the novel support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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