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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 Daphne describe as giving her the greatest sense of well-being available?
2. What does the message say, that Daphne gets once her phone has service?
3. What is Daphne stressed about when she settles down in Altavista?
4. Where is Engin in the photo he sends Daphne, which she sees after church?
5. For how long out of every month does Daphne say she feels like a “physical threat” to every man she sees (87)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the state of Daphne’s finances?
2. What positions do the editorials take on the State of Jefferson, in the paper Daphne reads?
3. What is the economic and cultural state of Altavista?
4. How does Daphne say she feels about her job?
5. How does Daphne characterize her relationship with cigarettes?
6. What unexpected connection does Daphne make at the café?
7. Why were Daphne and Engin not married in Turkey?
8. How does Daphne characterize her experience going to church with Honey?
9. What does Daphne do when her thoughts turn to death?
10. What common ground does Daphne discover she and the crone share?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Is this an American novel or just a regional novel bound to California and its North Country? What are the advantages and disadvantages of writing such a regional book? What does it mean for a novel to be American anyway?
Essay Topic 2
Write an evaluative review of The Golden State. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?
Essay Topic 3
In what ways could The Golden State be considered a coming-of-age novel, or bildungsroman? What does Daphne learn from the crisis the novel describes? How does it change her? How is her life a different life by the end of Day 10?
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