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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 brand of coffee does Kismet drink?
2. What company started sugar beet farming in the area where Kismet grew up?
3. Which of the following artist’s work is played at Kismet’s second wedding reception?
4. What mortgage company claims to have had Crystal’s signature?
5. In what year is Part Three: The Wedding Dinner set?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gary’s father describe as his “farmer car” (207)?
2. Why can most people not see where Winnie’s family farmstead had been?
3. What preempts the honeymoon plans made for Kismet and Gary?
4. How do Gary and his father relate to one another?
5. Why does Gary’s father exert himself at Gary’s second wedding reception?
6. What, for Kismet, is the signal that her youth is ended?
7. Why are Gary’s groomsmen strained as his second wedding reception begins?
8. How had Happy Frechette earned her fortune?
9. Why does Eric’s speech at Gary’s second wedding reception cause unease?
10. Why does Hugo keep the bookstore open during Kismet’s second wedding reception?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
To what other writer’s work in your experience does Erdrich’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?
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
With which of the characters in the novel do you most identify? What in the novel and your experience prompts that identification? How does it do so?
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