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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 is the author of the book that Blandine is reading describing?

2. In “Purebreds,” who accompanies Jack on his dog-sitting job?

3. What do the boys hear from Blandine's room?

4. How many symptoms does the writer describe he has been experiencing?

5. Who is the Moses email from?

Short Essay Questions

1. In “Your Auntie Tammy,” why does Joan feel guilty?

2. What is Moses's blog about?

3. In “The Expanding Circle,” what does Moses delete?

4. The writer blames his wife’s friend of what in “Game of Clue"?

5. What do Jack and his roommates stage in “It Wasn’t Todd’s Idea"?

6. What does Moses agree to do?

7. Jack knows he is drunk and high when what happens to him?

8. What do the homeless woman and Joan talk about?

9. What animal does Jack kill next in "It Wasn't Todd's Idea"?

10. Who does Blandine run into in the Valley?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

What role does the character of Jack play in the novel? Why does the author include this character? What other characters, themes, or motifs does he promote or at least affect?

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