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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. What is Colquitt doing when Anita comes to Colquitt's patio to tell her Toby called?
2. What is Colquitt trying to find when Kim kisses her?
3. Who does Kim say walked off the job at the Douglas house?
4. For what does Norman insist a blender is needed?
5. Who does Colquitt tell Claire she found out that Anita has returned to the hospital from?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Colquitt feel when Claire brings the Greenes over to meet them?
2. Why is Colquitt so upset at being unable to tell Claire what really happened to the Sheehans?
3. How does Norman react to Walter telling him that the house may be haunted?
4. Why does Colquitt call Anita's doctor after she sees Buck and Virginia on the couch?
5. Why does Claire think Colquitt's explanation that she thought the Sheehans may have just gone out is implausible when Colquitt tries to tell Claire she knows nothing about why the couple left?
6. What reason does Chick give the Kennedys for being unable to print the story of the house?
7. What reason does Claire discover for Susan putting up with Norman for so long?
8. What is strange about the phone calls Virginia tells Colquitt that Anita is receiving and who does she initially think they are from?
9. Why is Colquitt concerned about Claire's becoming friends with Susan?
10. Why does Walter tell Lipschutz to "shove it" when the Kennedys approach him about the house?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Kim's opinion of the house change throughout the novel? What is his initial opinion as the house is being built? What does he think of the house while the Sheehans live there? What does he think at the end of the book? What causes the fluctuation in his opinion?
Essay Topic 2
What point of view is the novel written in? What are the advantages of this point of view? What are the disadvantages? Is this an appropriate point of view for this novel? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
How does the author make the house a character in the novel? What techniques does she use? What is the reaction of Colquitt and Kim to the house? How do their feelings about the house change as the novel progresses?
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