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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 happens to the town in “The Flood"?

2. What makes Todd cry?

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

4. What is Blandine surprised by in “Purebreds"?

5. What does Blandine observe as she walks to the Valley?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Jamie’s sister, Ruth demands what of Moses?

3. Who does Blandine run into in the Valley?

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

5. What does Jack think is easier for Blandine than for him?

6. Why does Moses have trouble with Father Tim's idea?

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

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

9. What does Moses agree to say to the priest?

10. What does Moses agree to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Why does the author divide the chapters into passages rendering each tenant of the Rabbit Hutch in their individual spaces?

Essay Topic 3

What role do the medieval mystics play in Blandine’s experience?

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