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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 does Daphne characterize sex?
2. Who is the message from, on Daphne’s phone, once they reach a place that has signal?
3. Where is Daphne’s father when she greets him?
4. What does Daphne say she wanted to study in school?
5. What does Daphne say she is always looking for in Altavista residents?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Daphne characterize the circle of her conversation with Engin?
2. Where is Daphne when The Golden State starts, and what is her role there?
3. How does Daphne characterize the conversation she has with Cindy Cooper and her boyfriend Ed van Voorhees?
4. What common ground does Daphne discover she and the crone share?
5. Why were Daphne and Engin not married in Turkey?
6. Where are Daphne’s thoughts taking her at the beginning of the novel?
7. What is the crisis Honey’s injury creates in Daphne and how does she resolve it?
8. How does Daphne describe her feelings about her separation from Engin?
9. What is Cindy Cooper’s feeling about Islam?
10. What is the state of Daphne’s finances?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Identify the most important plot points in The Golden State. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?
Essay Topic 2
Evaluate your own reading of The Golden State—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
Essay Topic 3
Evaluate the ending of The Golden State. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?
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