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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 keeps Daphne from taking Honey for a drive after Alice leaves?
2. When does Daphne say her family moved to the area of Altavista?
3. How much more driving will it take to get to Camp Cooville?
4. How does Daphne find Alice when she gets back to Camp Cooville?
5. What does Daphne think she and Alice have in common?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are Daphne’s and Alice’s different views about Daphne’s idea of going to the town where Ellery and Maryam had their accident?
2. Why does Daphne say that it would be impossible for her to work from Altavista?
3. How does Daphne decide to leave Altavista?
4. What kind of child-care arrangements does Alice say she and her husband had made?
5. What are the issues that are aired during the board of supervisors meeting?
6. What crisis do Daphne’s coworkers contact her about, and how does she resolve it?
7. What explanation does Daphne offer to the daycare and to her job?
8. How does Alice describe her strategy for surviving after the death of her children?
9. What kind of exit strategy does Daphne imagine for herself?
10. What is Daphne’s epiphany about motherhood in Day 9?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What does the title of this novel mean? How many different meanings does it have, in the context of Daphne’s escape from her life? What is golden about the state of mind Daphne is in?
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