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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. How does the bride explain the choice to have an open bar at the wedding festivities?
2. What does Claire wear to the town hall?
3. What does Claire's stepmother tell her about what she thinks of Claire's swimsuit?
4. What is the groom carrying when Rena sees him the hall in the very early morning before the wedding?
5. Who does Lyssa have sex with at the beginning of the story Happily Ever After?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Lyssa tell the director about herself that is a lie before they have sex?
2. What happens to Rena's sister Elizabeth?
3. Why is Claire mainly seeing her boyfriend Jackson?
4. How does Rena think Dori views her?
5. Why is Travis accosted at the pharmacy in the story Happily Ever After?
6. How does what happened to Aaron in Claire's past potentially affect her current situation with the Confederate flag controversy?
7. Why does Claire resent the Halls eventually?
8. What is the general atmosphere like between Cecilia's mother and Nancy Morton during the Alcatraz tour?
9. What does JT tell Rena when she sees him in the hotel corridor the night before his wedding?
10. What happens to Aaron when he drives Claire home from the party her senior year?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do you think Evans chooses to write the two stories in the collection, Alcatraz and The Office of Historical Corrections, from the first-person point of view, and how do you think this decision affects the reader's experience of these particular stories? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
How does Evans treat the topic of parental responsibility and love in the story Anything Could Disappear? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text.
Essay Topic 3
In the story Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain, how does Evans treat the theme of danger, and the potential sources of danger in Rena's life? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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