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

2. Which of the following does Kismet posit would not have married Gary in any event?

3. What subject does Speck teach?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Stockton regard boredom?

3. Why had Crystal refused to marry Martin?

4. What sends Hugo to the principal’s office to sit beside Kismet?

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

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

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

8. When does Eric believe himself capable of deception?

9. Why is Gary’s smile perfect?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what extent does the novel stake out a political position? What position is it? What in the novel shows that position, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first names and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does The Mighty Red bear as much out?

Essay Topic 3

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-titling scheme at work in The Mighty Red? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

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