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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. Who does Claire mostly hang out with during her senior year of college?

2. What does Claire think as she approaches the microphone to speak at the town hall?

3. Where is the wedding supposed to take place?

4. What month does Claire's mother die in?

5. Where had Claire's next door neighbors when she was a child previously lived?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Claire resent the Halls eventually?

2. Why is Travis accosted at the pharmacy in the story Happily Ever After?

3. What is the history of Alcatraz for Cecilia's family?

4. How does Rena think Dori views her?

5. Why does Travis not tell Lyssa about what happens to him at the pharmacy?

6. What kind of relationship did Claire used to have with the Halls, her old neighbors?

7. Why does Lyssa's coworker Mackenzie say Lyssa was picked to appear in the music video filming?

8. What does Rena think about the dangers of her job as a photographer sometimes working in war zones?

9. How does what happened to Aaron in Claire's past potentially affect her current situation with the Confederate flag controversy?

10. How does Cecilia describe her own mother's childhood?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

In the story Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain, why do you think Dori enlists Rena to help her find her missing fiance, JT, even though Rena feels that Dori views her as something of a threat to her impending marriage? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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