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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 does Moshe gift Chona?

2. To which of the following does Moshe take Chona for treatment?

3. What job does Malachi note having had?

4. At what time does Malachi call on Moshe?

5. How does the novel gloss the term “twart”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does Isaac stereotype Bulgarians?

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

8. Why does Anna Morse leave the theatre business?

9. Why does Moshe note not liking challah?

10. Why does Chona speak against her teacher on Bernice’s behalf?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store? By which groups? Why?

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

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

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