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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 James make Tiffany feel?

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

3. What is the name that Blandine wants to change to?

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

5. In “Chemical Hazard,” what is Moses’s favorite pastime?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the names of the elderly couple in C6?

3. In “My First Was a Fish," what did the fish’s death convince Jack of?

4. What does Tiffany hear James play?

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

6. What does Blandine wish she could do?

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

8. How does James make Tiffany feel?

9. When James drives Tiffany home, what happens?

10. What is Joan Kowalski screening on the website?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the author present a nuanced commentary on power structures through the characters?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Moses feel imprisoned by the traumas he suffers at Elsie’s hand throughout his childhood?

Essay Topic 3

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

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