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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. How much does Wayne pay for C’s shoes?

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

3. Which of the following costumes does Wayne see at the event he understands C will attend?

4. To which of the following hospitals is Wayne taken?

5. What is Lu’s middle name?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Wayne rob the women in the train station?

2. What injuries does Wayne sustain at police hands?

3. How does Mo explain time to Wayne?

4. How does Wayne explain Mo’s ability to persuade people?

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

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

7. How does Wayne describe transitioning from associating with Mo to associating with Sticky?

8. What information does Wayne confirm with the urchin he meets at the gala he expects C to attend?

9. Why does C buy ice cream at Walgreens and eat it?

10. What does Wayne note “The trick is” to boasting (151)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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

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?

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