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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 was the purple cow lyric used for?
2. Where was Jonathan returning the U.S. from, when he recalls being 16, at the beginning of the New York School chapter?
3. What was Jane told made her Christmas gift special?
4. What environment does the narrator say Darren’s camouflage pants helped him disappear into?
5. What was the special gift Jane received instead of a bicycle for Christmas, as a child?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what ways did Adam and his friend shift their aggression into the realm of language?
2. What cause Jane to consciously redirect her thoughts about Adam’s behavior, and how did she do so?
3. What was Jonathan’s relationship with Donna Selkie like, and what made is awkward?
4. In what condition did Darren wake up at Clinton Lake?
5. What observations does Adam make about American culture when he is in the supermarket with his mother and grandmother?
6. How did the time at the roller rink return seven years later in the basement at Jason’s party?
7. How did Adam lose his L-D debate?
8. What is the difference between extemp and Lincoln-Douglass debate?
9. What explanation does Jonathan give for why his parents and the diplomats drank so much in Taiwan?
10. What happened to Darren at Clinton Lake?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 2
When is The Topeka School most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 3
What topics would you like to research further, after reading The Topeka School? Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on The Topeka School.
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