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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. Which of the following does Crystal know is in the waters of the Red River?

3. At what time on the morning of her wedding does Hugo wake Kismet?

4. What perfume does Crystal wear?

5. Which of the following is Gary noted to love?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Stockton regard boredom?

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

4. Why is Gary’s smile perfect?

5. Why had Crystal refused to marry Martin?

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

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

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

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

10. What experience of angels does Boris relate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What character is the protagonist of The Mighty Red? How does the novel support such an assertion?

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