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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. At which of the following had Crystal and Kismet shopped for clothes?

2. To whom does Crystal suggest oxygen be administered?

3. Which of the local priest’s vestments did he overtighten?

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

5. To which of the following did the wealthy near Crystal go to shop?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why did Crystal favor chain motels while traveling?

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

9. How does Stockton regard boredom?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What attitude towards intoxicants does the novel display? How does it make that attitude clear?

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

Overall, what is the most important theme of The Mighty Red. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

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