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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 did Sally want to wear when she got to Cornell in Chapter 12?

2. How old were Salo and Johanna the first time she wanted to see an infertility doctor, but Salo was not interested?

3. In Chapter 11, where did Harrison go to college?

4. Where did Johanna go to college?

5. Where do the Oppenheimer triplets grow up?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Jonas spend two years in England before he came to college?

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

3. Why did Harrison quit eating chicken?

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

5. Why did Harrison decide to attend Roarke?

6. In Chapter 8, how was Johanna feeling about the triplets leaving home, and what did she decide to do?

7. How did Sally start unloading herself of belongings at Cornell?

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

9. In Chapter 3, where did Johanna work and how did she get her job?

10. How did Salo meet Stella in 1993?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon her interpretation of life. How does Korelitz use artistic license to create the realistic background of The Latecomer?

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