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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. Who interrupts Moses’s reflections?

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

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

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

5. How does Jack violently smash a mouse?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Moses stay while in Vacca Vale?

3. Who is the Moses email from?

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

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

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

7. Why does Moses delete the mysterious email?

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

9. Who does Blandine run into in the Valley?

10. What is Moses's blog about?

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 is the character James an escape for Blandine?

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