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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 lake does Pollux go to to think about his grandmother?

2. What was on Budgie's body when Tookie moved it?

3. What actress does Pollux remember seeing when he was riding the bus?

4. Who does Hetta name her baby after?

5. What does Tookie remember the bookstore bought and the employees had to divide up the chops and shanks?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Dissatisfaction?

2. Who was Flora?

3. Where did Tookie get a job after she got out of prison?

4. What was Tookie doing when she was called into the warden's office at Waseca?

5. What is Pollux's history?

6. After the cremation, why does Tookie believe that Flora is gone and then changes her mind?

7. How does Tookie live a regular life?

8. How does Tookie offend Hetta?

9. Why was Tookie at a perilous age when she committed her crime?

10. What happens when Tookie is reading the book Flora was reading when she died?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tookie and Hetta have a difficult relationship. Why do Tookie and Hetta have a difficult relationship? How and why does their relationship change enough that Hetta calls Tookie “Mom”?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss who Tookie's favorite customer is and why. What does helping him reveal about the joys of a challenge?

Essay Topic 3

Pollux contracts Covid. How does Tookie feel when she has to take Pollux to the hospital? How does his illness make her reexamine her life? How does his illness heal the rift between them?

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