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

2. On what street does Paper live?

3. To which of the following is Chona compared?

4. From what Alabama town does Paper come?

5. How does the text gloss the term “mikvah”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Paper thought to be illiterate?

4. For what does Moshe take Malachi when the latter first arrives at the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store?

5. What occasions Dodo’s deafness?

6. To what does Chona ascribe her and Moshe’s commercial success?

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

8. What event precipitates Bernice leaving school?

9. How does Isaac stereotype Bulgarians?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

McBride depicts Doc Roberts falling into line with a local hate group. What lesson might be taken away from the depiction? What in the text supports that lesson, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Much is made in the novel of the difference between the rural and the urban. Does the novel privilege one over the other? If so, how and to what effect? If not, how not and to what effect?

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