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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 Jonathan say his parents drank to ignore?
2. How does the narrator say people like Darren learn to differentiate themselves in this country?
3. What did Adam do after dinner that delighted the Phelpses?
4. When Adam understood the language of products, what did he understand them to be saying?
5. What was Jonathan’s reaction to paying for a sex act at the bath house?
Short Essay Questions
1. What advice did Evanson give Adam at the debate tournament in Minneapolis?
2. What is Adam’s relationship with Peter Evanson?
3. How does Jonathan describe the conditions where he grew up in Taiwan?
4. What observations does Adam make about American culture when he is in the supermarket with his mother and grandmother?
5. What is the one situation that holds numerous times together in the “New York School” chapter?
6. What was Jonathan’s experience in the bathhouse, and how did it affect him?
7. What aspect of Adam’s friends’ culture led to the melee that started with Reynolds and Darren?
8. What is the importance of the purple cow?
9. How does the narrator characterize the interaction between Adam and Jane and the Phelpses on the way to Jane’s keynote address?
10. How did Adam lose his L-D debate?
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
What is the weakest part of this novel? Of the different weak sections, which gives you the most insight in to the author’s theory of what a novel is, and what it ought to do? How would you have suggested strengthening these weak passages?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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