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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 old is Joan Kowalski?

2. What is the apartment number of the Rabbit Hutch where Blandine lives?

3. What does the man living below Blandine look at?

4. Who becomes Tiffany’s mentor?

5. Who did Jack show the fish to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tiffany hear James play?

2. In the days following “the Night,” what does James stop doing?

3. How does James make Tiffany feel?

4. What is in the bag that Blandine leaves the house with?

5. Why does Joan's boss scold her?

6. In Part II, “Afterlife,” two days before Blandine exits her body, where does she go?

7. What does the name Blandine stand for to Tiffany?

8. What is Joan Kowalski screening on the website?

9. When James drives Tiffany home, what happens?

10. How do Tiffany and James know each other?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think the author presents the narrative windows into each of her character’s distinct lives?

Essay Topic 2

Do a close reading of Joan’s character. How does her transformation throughout the novel speak to Gunty’s larger point of intersecting lives at The Rabbit Hutch?

Essay Topic 3

How does Blandine use economic structures in order to understand dynamic relationships?

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