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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. Who walks Kismet down the aisle at her wedding?

2. Beside what river did Gary find a bison tooth?

3. What carnival ride had Winnie favored?

4. In which period does Hugo recognize himself as existing?

5. In what month does Part Two: Vows begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Gary object to the description of Kismet’s engagement ring as “a wearable fleck” (11)?

6. How does Stockton regard boredom?

7. Why is Gary’s smile perfect?

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

9. Why had Crystal delayed separating from Martin?

10. How does Eric react to rescuing Kismet from the river?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Sources attest to the presence of The Mighty Red on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

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