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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. As which of the following was a portion of the novel previously published?

3. Which of the following does Cee note calling herself?

4. In which of the following does Cee dream she converses with her brother?

5. What color are Cee’s mother’s eyes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Cee note her brother had trouble drawing straight lines?

3. What is Reena’s summer job?

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

5. What problem in Cee’s mother’s painting does Cee identify?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mention is made throughout the novel of the weight among the Williams family of the term “lie.” From the text of the novel and its contexts of composition and publication, what is the significance of that assertion in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Serpell’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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