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

2. What had been Stockton’s father’s profession?

3. What crop had Happy Frechette picked?

4. What kind of tree is Kismet standing beside when she finds her great-grandfather’s bone?

5. In what year did sugar beet farming begin where Kismet grew up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Kismet’s favorite thing?

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

6. How does Charley defuse the situation with Eric at Gary’s second wedding reception?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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