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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. From where is Nate said to have come?

2. How many years is Fatty imprisoned?

3. What color of marble does Monkey Pants have?

4. What is on the sign for Fatty’s establishment?

5. What play runs at Moshe’s theatre while Chona is hospitalized?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Fatty typify the Lowgods?

2. What injuries did Dodo sustain in being apprehended?

3. What is the tension surrounding the Afro-Cubans, and how is it resolved?

4. Why does Dodo assume Chona, Nate, and Addie are angry with him?

5. Why is Fatty worried about Big Soap’s mother arriving in anger at his establishment?

6. How does Moshe pack the pants he returns to Malachi?

7. When does Nate note having heard the South Carolina State marching band?

8. Why does Fatty absent himself from Chona’s funeral?

9. Why did Moshe book the Afro-Cubans at his theatre?

10. What is the dominant occupation of the women of Hemlock Row?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

To what genre other than historical fiction might The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

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