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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 kind of car does Darren see himself driving?
2. What is the spread in debate?
3. Where does Darren go for hot water for free?
4. What kind of gun did Darren have?
5. How does the narrator say Bob Dole spoke at the high school debate tournament?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Jonathan studying for his dissertation?
2. How does Jonathan describe his relationship with Ziegler?
3. What is the setting for the first full chapter, after the brief prologue?
4. What was the memory Sima helped Jane uncover?
5. How does Jane characterize her relationship with Sima?
6. What did Jonathan find captivating about the Duccio Madonna and Child painting in the Met?
7. What are the kinds of things Darren finds and puts in his pockets and gauges his identity by?
8. What is the setting for the opening of The Topeka School?
9. How does the narrator characterize Adam’s role in the debate team?
10. What was Darren’s job, and how did he lose it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a character sketch of the author based on his style and content. What can we tell about him, based on the choices he makes in terms of description, characterization and plot? What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.
Essay Topic 2
Where is the emotional heart of The Topeka School? Is it centered in power, or meanness or fairness or kindness? What are the main centers of the novel, if there is not just one? What is the relationship between the emotional centers of The Topeka School? How does the book define the relationship between its centers?
Essay Topic 3
Identify the most important plot points in The Topeka School. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?
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