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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. From where does Winnie rent a limousine for Gary’s wedding?

2. Which of the following does Winnie note opening in her area?

3. What kind of tree stands in the yard of Kismet’s nuptial home?

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

5. Of what is the local priest’s chasuble when he officiates Gary’s wedding?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kismet’s high school career end?

2. Why does Crystal wear the cross the local priest gave her?

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Gary fret about the size of his genitals?

8. How does Hugo propose to dehumidify his mother’s bookstore?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

With which of the characters in the novel do you most identify? What in the novel and your experience prompts that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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