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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 kind of flower does Dodo favor?

2. What is Fatty’s real name?

3. How does the text gloss the term “mazchor"?

4. Which of the following was Moshe’s theatre?

5. From what country is Moshe descended?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Moshe have trouble advertising his first major show?

2. Why, per Moshe, is marriage complicated for new Jewish immigrants to America?

3. Why does Chona have standing among the local Jewish community?

4. How does Nate dispose of Malachi’s challah?

5. What event precipitates Bernice leaving school?

6. Why does the local Black community esteem Chona?

7. How do local officials respond to Moshe integrating his theatre?

8. How does Malachi respond to the assertion that a mezuzah belongs on a door?

9. What story about his family does Moshe tell to keep his audience amused as they await a show?

10. Why does Paper not work as a maid?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrative pattern of the novel is marked by asides. What effect do those asides have on the novel, and how is that effect achieved?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The novel comments repeatedly on the South, despite taking place in what is clearly the North. How is the South figured in the novel? What effect on the reader does that figuration have? How is it produced?

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