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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. What flowers are on the tables at Kismet’s second wedding reception?

2. In which of the following programs does Gary’s father enroll?

3. What does Eric’s mother drink at Kismet’s second wedding reception?

4. Over what pizza topping do Kismet and Gary fight?

5. Which of the following is on the tables at Kismet’s second wedding reception?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Gary and his father relate to one another?

3. Why does Jeniver note Crystal’s case will be difficult?

4. Why can most people not see where Winnie’s family farmstead had been?

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

6. How does Kismet respond to her mother-in-law’s naming her?

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

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

9. Why do Winnie’s contemporaries favor the kind of small dogs she has?

10. What is Kismet’s favorite thing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Consider the setting of the novel. Could its events have happened in any other time than the book presents? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of The Mighty Red do so for the present novel? How or how not?

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