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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. For how many years had Nate been in Pottstown?

2. In what country does Malachi come to live?

3. At what time are the inhabitants of the ward where Dodo is held roused for the day?

4. What instrument does Lionel Hampton play?

5. What does Fatty claim the people of Hemlock Row eat?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Doc dislike Gus?

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

5. Why does Dodo assign Monkey Pants his sobriquet?

6. How does Fatty typify the Lowgods?

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

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

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

10. Why does Fatty turn to his cousin Gene for help with his dental needs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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