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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 what is Monkey Pants compared?

2. Who leads the Afro-Cubans Moshe booked at his theatre?

3. How does the novel gloss the term “chevry”?

4. How many shifts of attendants are on the ward where Dodo is held?

5. On which avenue had Dodo lived with his mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ideas does Fatty consider and reject for getting Nate out of his establishment?

2. Why does Monkey Pants’s marble inspire hope in Dodo?

3. For what is the site of the local Memorial Day festivities usually used?

4. How does Dodo’s deafness help him communicate with Monkey Pants?

5. What leads Fatty to be wary of Nate’s anger?

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

7. How does Fatty typify the Lowgods?

8. Why does Dodo assign Monkey Pants his sobriquet?

9. What injuries did Dodo sustain in being apprehended?

10. Why does Gus dislike Doc?

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

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the part- and chapter-titling scheme at work in The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

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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