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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. Which of the following performed at Moshe’s theatre?

2. For which of the following did Big Soap work?

3. How far is Pottstown from Reading?

4. What color are Malachi’s eyes?

5. What job does Malachi note having had?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the people of Chicken Hill regard the devastation of Hurricane Agnes?

2. Why does Malachi maintain Black Americans have an advantage?

3. Why does Anna Morse leave the theatre business?

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

5. Why does Moshe note not liking challah?

6. Why is Paper thought to be illiterate?

7. What event precipitates Bernice leaving school?

8. In the novel, what is the story of Moses and the burning coals?

9. What had attracted the Black population of Pottstown to Pottstown?

10. What does Nate use as a euphemism for his sister-in-law’s death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 2

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, combined in the novel with its dedication, do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Assuming that The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

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