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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 kind of bird do C and her father see on the beach together?

2. Of what wood is the bar at the movie studio made?

3. What is the name of C’s father’s stepdaughter?

4. What figure is on the cotton candy cone C and Wayne share?

5. Which of the following brands does Cee preferentially smoke?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what does C’s father ascribe the assistance given him in his search?

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

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

4. Why does Cee assert a mixed-race person is supposed to be pretty?

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

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

7. What is the typical subject of Cee’s mother’s painting?

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

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

10. How does Rose respond to the loss of her breasts to cancer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what genre other than elegy might The Furrows be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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