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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. Which of the following is a main course at Kismet’s second wedding reception?

2. In what year is Part Four: Honeymoon set?

3. Who gives a speech after Eric is escorted out of Gary’s second wedding reception?

4. What color tuxedo do Gary’s groomsmen wear?

5. Which of the following is a side dish at Kismet’s second wedding reception?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eric discuss with Kismet when he dances with her at her second wedding reception?

2. What preempts the honeymoon plans made for Kismet and Gary?

3. What rumor had attached itself to Crystal regarding her clothing?

4. Why are Gary’s groomsmen strained as his second wedding reception begins?

5. What does Gary’s father describe as his “farmer car” (207)?

6. Why is a funeral cake served at Kismet’s second wedding reception?

7. Why does Dale work the worst parts of sugar beet hauling?

8. What do Hugo and Kismet do on the night of her wedding?

9. Why does Hugo keep the bookstore open during Kismet’s second wedding reception?

10. What, for Kismet, is the signal that her youth is ended?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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