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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. In what year is Part One: The Proposal set?

2. How many hours long is a typical shift for Crystal?

3. Which of the following does Kismet play at school?

4. To whose radio show does Crystal like to listen?

5. Which of the following does Crystal carry at work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had the local church’s renovation funds hoped to purchase?

2. Why does Kismet let the current of the Red River take her?

3. Why does Crystal posit her life had grated on Martin?

4. What is Crystal’s typical night-haul lunch?

5. What sends Hugo to the principal’s office to sit beside Kismet?

6. What fate does Kismet imagine for Gary immediately after wedding him?

7. How does Stockton regard boredom?

8. Why did Crystal favor chain motels while traveling?

9. What experience of angels does Boris relate?

10. Why had Crystal delayed separating from Martin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

To what extent does the novel stake out a political position? What position is it? What in the novel shows that position, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Within the novel, there are gestures towards things that might be called supernatural. Within the context of the novel, are they real or hallucinatory? What in the novel demonstrates as much, and how does it do so?

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