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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. Near which of the following does Miggy Fludd live?

2. After how many weeks in the institution does Dodo first see Son of Man?

3. What condition does Monkey Pants have?

4. Where does Gus claim to have injured his foot?

5. What instrument does Lionel Hampton play?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Fatty typify the Lowgods?

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

4. What is the general shape of Pottstown’s Memorial Day festivities?

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

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

7. Why does Gus dislike Doc?

8. Why does Dodo assign Monkey Pants his sobriquet?

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

10. Why does Doc dislike Gus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 3

Assuming that The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

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