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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 Tookie remember the bookstore bought and the employees had to divide up the chops and shanks?

2. What is the name of Jacke's dog?

3. After inventory, what book by Eileen Myles is Tookie reading?

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

5. What type of mittens is Asema wearing at the New Year's open house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hetta say about the father of her baby?

2. Who is Dissatisfaction?

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

4. What does Tookie say about Flora's visits in "Blue"?

5. Why does Kateri call Tookie about a mix-up?

6. What do Tookie and Pollux like and dislike about Christmas?

7. How do Tookie and Pollux celebrate the New Year?

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

9. How long was Tookie's sentence for moving Budgie's body and why?

10. What did Tookie do for Danae?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A 102-year-old elm tree falls in Tookie’s backyard. What does the tree falling communicate about mortality? How does it cause Tookie to examine her mortality?

Essay Topic 2

A person can be haunted by regrets or spirits in the book. How are some characters literally haunted by ghosts or spirits? How are other characters haunted by regrets? How do both types of hauntings affect characters physically and emotionally?

Essay Topic 3

The setting in a book is the place or places where the action takes place. Where does the story take place? Is the setting simply a backdrop to the story and characters or does it take on the role of a character?

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