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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 does Father Tim think Elsie was trying to protect Moses from?

2. In “Just Bored,” a few hours before vacating her body, what is Blandine listening to?

3. Who does Blandine run into in the Valley?

4. In “Your Auntie Tammy,” when Joan moves to leave, what does Penny warn her about?

5. In “Welcome Home,” how many Vacca Vale commercials does Todd watch online?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Moses stay while in Vacca Vale?

2. What is Moses's blog about?

3. Why does Moses delete the mysterious email?

4. After the business plummets in the town, what does the town discover?

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

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

7. What does Father Tim think Elsie was trying to protect Moses from?

8. What does Moses tell the priest?

9. What does Moses think of Elsie?

10. What does Elsie make Moses promise never to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Joan's transformation throughout the novel speak to Gunty’s larger point of intersecting lives at The Rabbit Hutch?

Essay Topic 2

The author particularly uses Moses’s interaction with Father Tim in “The Rotten Truth,” in order to reveal what?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the novel, how does the author use her main character Blandine’s dissociative experiences in order to consider the individual’s complex search for identity?

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