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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 the narrator say Darren would use to ward off insults?
2. How did Darren’s gun lead to him getting stitches?
3. Where is Adam at the beginning of the novel?
4. What is Darren doing at the beginning of the novel?
5. What was Dr. Erwood’s specialty at the Topeka Foundation?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Jonathan studying for his dissertation?
2. How does Jonathan describe his relationship with Ziegler?
3. How did fame change things for Jane?
4. What is the spread and why is it controversial?
5. What importance did Jonathan’s therapist attach to his interest in the Ziegler story?
6. How does the narrator say that Darren uses chants?
7. What was Darren’s job, and how did he lose it?
8. How does Jonathan explain his success at the Foundation?
9. How does the narrator characterize Adam’s role in the debate team?
10. How does Jane characterize her relationship with Sima?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Lerner use debate as a running metaphor throughout the novel? How does it parallel relationships, politics, the economy? What are the advantages and disadvantages of debate strategies as running metaphors throughout the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Evaluate your own reading of The Topeka School—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
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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