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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 position does Eric play in football?

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

3. To which of the following does Crystal pray as she fumes at Martin at her daughter’s wedding?

4. Where does Gary plan to honeymoon?

5. From which of the following are Crystal and Kismet descended?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Crystal favor chain motels while traveling?

4. Why had Crystal delayed separating from Martin?

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

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

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

8. What experience of angels does Boris relate?

9. Why is Gary’s smile perfect?

10. What fate does Kismet imagine for Gary on the steps of the church outside their wedding?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the back-matter of the novel. What functions does it serve? What effects does it have for the reader? How are those functions served and effects achieved?

Essay Topic 2

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of The Mighty Red? By which groups? Why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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