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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. How long were Salo and Johanna married when he told her he wanted a divorce in Chapter 25?

2. What did most of the students wear to the Seder Lewyn attended in Chapter 15?

3. Where did Lewyn sign up to live his next year at Cornell in Chapter 20?

4. When did Sally return to Cornell at the end of Chapter 19?

5. In Chapter 22, when were the Oppenheimer triplets expected to gather at the cottage?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 20, why did Rochelle never want Lewyn to visit her dorm room?

2. In Chapter 18, who sat with Lewyn on the bus when he returned to Cornell after spring break and what conversation did they have?

3. What does Johanna remember about the time Phoebe met her surrogate mother?

4. How did Sally, Harrison, and Lewyn travel to the Vineyard in Chapter 24?

5. What did Sally decide to do for spring break after Rochelle took her to the train station?

6. How did Sally create a space for her in Harriet's house when Harriet invited her to live there?

7. How had Salo had two lives over the years?

8. What was Harriet's house like in Chapter 16?

9. In Chapter 26, what sport does Phoebe participate in and why?

10. Where was the play Jonas was in in Chapter 22 performed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Johanna struggles with disappointment. How and why does Johanna struggle with disappointment? How does she cope with her disappointments?

Essay Topic 2

Eli believes in racial color blindness. What is racial color blindness? How and why does Eli believe that people should be blind when it comes to race?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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