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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. What material is the windbreaker Cee sees?

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

3. To which of the following does Cee compare her grandmother’s mole?

4. Which of the following does Cee’s father drink?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What advice is C given by a nurse at the hospital?

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

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

8. What does Cee report packing for her brother and herself for trips to the beach?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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