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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. With which of the following does Part Two: Vows begin?

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

3. Where does Gary plan to honeymoon?

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

5. With which of the following does The Night Driver begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When does Eric believe himself capable of deception?

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

4. Why, when they had traveled together, did Crystal sleep apart from Martin?

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

6. Ultimately, why does Kismet proceed to marry Gary?

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

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

9. What makes the Red River of the North opaque?

10. About what does Gary throw a fit after his wedding to Kismet?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assuming that The Mighty Red should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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