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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 author is Tookie reading after she buries the book that killed Flora?

2. Where is Hetta living in "Rose-Fleshed Trout"?

3. What type of sandwich does Pollux make Tookie after they sit in the tree that falls in the yard?

4. In "The Second Nature of Penstemon Brown," what do Pen and Tookie share?

5. What edition of the American Heritage Diction of the English Lanauge did Jackie Kettle send Tookie?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is Kateri and what does she bring Tookie?

5. What does Tookie blame the book for after a violent storm?

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

7. How does Tookie try to get rid of Flora's book?

8. Who is Dissatisfaction?

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Tookie's relationship with her mother and how that effects Tookie as an adult.

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