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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. From where is Nate said to have come?

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

4. How many years is Fatty imprisoned?

5. At what time are the inhabitants of the ward where Dodo is held put to bed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Gus dislike Doc?

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

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

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

7. How does Fatty typify the Lowgods?

8. What injuries did Dodo sustain in being apprehended?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What character is the protagonist of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store? How does the novel support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The novel comments repeatedly on the South, despite taking place in what is clearly the North. How is the South figured in the novel? What effect on the reader does that figuration have? How is it produced?

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