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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 do Meg and Beth object to about the outfit the funeral home has dressed Lorelei in?
2. What is the pattern on the dress that Meg and Beth buy for Lorelei to wear for her funeral?
3. Which best describes Lorelei's attitude about Jim's drinking?
4. When Meg sees Colin in Chapter 9, to what does she attribute her weight loss?
5. How does the family celebrate once they finish clearing their first room at Bird House?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Lorelei's Chapter 16 email to Jim reveal happened between her and Rhys on the night before Rhys's death?
2. In her Chapter 8 email to Jim, what claim does Lorelei make about the cleanliness of her home, and how is this contradicted by evidence elsewhere in the text?
3. What is Vicky's perspective on the way Lorelei helps her during her illness?
4. In Chapter 12, what details of Beth's life in Australia following Vicky's funeral are finally filled in?
5. During Beth's September, 2006 visit to England, what contrast is there between her attitude toward the affair and Bill's?
6. How does Lorelei characterize Rory in her email to Jim?
7. How does Meg's answer to Colin's question about how she is feeling about Lorelei's death demonstrate her complex feelings about her mother?
8. What cruel irony does Meg see in what she was doing herself at the time of Lorelei's death?
9. What obstacle prevents Lorelei and Jim from spending time together in person, and how does Jim propose they deal with this issue?
10. How does Beth describe her last couple of years in Australia to Bill when they talk on the way to pick Bill's kids up from school?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
After Beth witnesses the scene between her mother and her father and Vicky in Chapter 7, she goes upstairs to her own room. What is it that so disturbs her about the appearance of her room? What does it imply about her? How does juxtaposing her dawning realizations about her own room and herself with the scene between her parents and Vicky create a sense of urgency and help the reader understand Beth's decision to try again with Jason? Write an essay in which you analyze how the details in and structure of this section of Chapter 7 allows the reader to more fully understand Beth's panic and her choice to attempt a relationship with Jason.
Essay Topic 2
Are the Bird siblings estranged from one another because of the kind of household they grew up in, and because of circumstances beyond their control--like Rhys's death? Or is their estrangement more due to the siblings' personalities and differing worldviews? Or is the problem some combination of both? Write an essay in which you take a position about what has really caused the Bird siblings to grow so far apart from one another. Support your ideas with evidence drawn from throughout the novel.
Essay Topic 3
What is the significance of the thematic motif of birds in The House We Grew Up In? How does Jewell use the family name, Lorelei's devotion to the Easter egg hunt and collecting the egg foils, and other references to birds to convey ideas about home and family? Write an essay in which you take and defend a position about the symbolic significance of birds and things related to birds in this text. Support your claims with both quoted and paraphrased evidence drawn from throughout the text, making sure to cite quoted evidence in MLA format.
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