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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. How many people are lodged in the *ward* where Dodo is held?

2. How many years is Fatty imprisoned?

3. What kind of hat does Bullis wear?

4. How large had been the bounty on Sanko, per Miggy?

5. How many miles from Pottstown is Hemlock Row?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What injuries did Dodo sustain in being apprehended?

8. Why does Gus dislike Doc?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel muses at some length about the nature of America. What, ultimately, is its vision of what it means to be an American? How does it present that vision?

Essay Topic 2

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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