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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 tipped Jane off to her mother’s ability to ignore difficult realities?
2. What did Jonathan and Jane leave at the museum when they left?
3. Who has just left Adam, when his chapter opens?
4. What drugs had Jonathan and Jane taken when they went to the Met?
5. How long does the narrator say it will take Adam to see the connection between Amber’s story and her actions?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the story Amber told Adam in the car after they reconnected?
2. What is Adam’s relationship with Dr. Erwood?
3. What are the kinds of things Darren finds and puts in his pockets and gauges his identity by?
4. How did fame change things for Jane?
5. How does Jonathan explain his success at the Foundation?
6. What is the spread and why is it controversial?
7. What emotions does Jane associate with having neglected to order airline tickets for a family trip?
8. What importance did Jonathan’s therapist attach to his interest in the Ziegler story?
9. How does the narrative tone change when Bob Dole enters the high school where the debate is taking place?
10. How does the narrator characterize Adam’s role in the debate team?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In what way is The Topeka School a bildungsroman (or kunstlerroman)? What are the stages of maturation it narrates? How does the novel draw a distinction between developmental stages, and how does it move characters from one stage to another?
Essay Topic 2
In what way does The Topeka School serve as equipment for living? How does it help you evaluate claims in the real world, and make decisions? What kinds of decisions would this book likely help you make?
Essay Topic 3
Make a graphic representation of the action, development, and progress of The Topeka School. Then explain your work: what are the best variables by which to chart the book’s movement? What comes forward in a graphic representation that might be lost in an analytic paper?
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