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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. To what floor does Stella take Salo at the Outsider Art Fair in Chapter 6 when he starts to cry?

2. Where did Salo and Johanna meet the first time briefly?

3. Where did the triplets have a playroom?

4. Where did Johanna go to college?

5. What instrument did Harrison play?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Mandy Bernstein?

2. What did it take for Salo and Johanna to have the triplets?

3. What art did Salo's grandparents have on their walls, and what happened to the art when he applied to Cornell?

4. What was it like when the babies were little?

5. How did Johanna like to say she and Salo met, and how did really they meet?

6. Why did Salo move his painting to a warehouse?

7. How did Sally and Lewyn get accepted to attend Cornell?

8. In Chapter 12, how did Sally spend her holidays?

9. When Johanna went to a bookstore in Chapter 8, who did she see?

10. Where was Harrison planning to go to college after Roarke?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Harrison felt that Walden had ideologically indoctrinated him and his siblings since preschool. Why does Harrison dislike Walden? What type of education would he have preferred and why?

Essay Topic 2

Salo tends to go along with what people in his life expect or want him to do. What do the relationships Salo has with friends and family reveal about his passivity?

Essay Topic 3

Outsider Art is created by self-taught artists who have little contact with the established conventions of the art world. What does Salo think about Outsider Art and why?

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