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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 does Daphne think she and Alice have in common?
2. What does Alice call her car?
3. What is Alice wearing that surprises Daphne when they leave Altavista?
4. How long was Daphne in the States between the time she met Engin and then returned to him?
5. What was the fate of the State of Jefferson?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the authorities’ response to the State of Jefferson movement?
2. What kind of child-care arrangements does Alice say she and her husband had made?
3. Why does Daphne say that it would be impossible for her to work from Altavista?
4. What does Daphne say when Alice asks her why she is AWOL from her job?
5. What crisis do Daphne’s coworkers contact her about, and how does she resolve it?
6. How does Alice explain the death of her children?
7. What explanation does Daphne offer to the daycare and to her job?
8. How does Daphne’s mother say she saw her, and how does Daphne say her vision of Honey is different from her mother’s view of her?
9. How does Engin reassure Daphne when she is doubting the strength of their tie?
10. How does Daphne decide to leave Altavista?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does The Golden State do for the reader? What anxiety does it address, and does it offer a meaningful catharsis or epiphany for the reader to follow or be enlightened by? Put another way: what questions of yours does The Golden State resonate with, and do you find that you have more equipment for handling those questions, now that you have read the book?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Would you recommend The Golden State? For what purposes would you recommend The Golden State, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?
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