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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. With which of the following does Will uncover rats in the walls?

2. At which of the following stations does C elude Wayne?

3. What is tattooed on Sticky’s right knuckles?

4. At which of the following do C and Wayne go to dinner together?

5. With which of the following is Wayne tattooed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Mo and Wayne part ways?

2. Why does Sticky suggest meeting at Jah’Va?

3. What occasions laughter between C and Wayne at their dinner together?

4. In what features does Wayne note the resemblance between C and her father?

5. How does Will summarize his early experience in the justice system?

6. What confirms to Will that he has been followed to his drug deal?

7. When C asks him about his work, how does Wayne respond?

8. Why does Will disclaim his real name?

9. How does Mo explain time to Wayne?

10. Why does Wayne dislike San Francisco weather?

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

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in The Furrows? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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