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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. Which of the following does Gus own?

2. How is the name Lowgod defined?

3. What color of marble does Monkey Pants have?

4. What is the name of Moshe’s local skating rink?

5. What instrument does Miggy Fludd use for her truthsaying?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Gus dislike Doc?

7. What is the dominant occupation of the women of Chicken Hill?

8. Why does Doc dislike Gus?

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

10. How does Fatty typify the Lowgods?

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

What attitude towards the supernatural does the novel betray? How does it convey that attitude?

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