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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 do Connie and Arnold find they are both listening to on the radio at the same time?
2. In Home, why does Daniel not want the narrator to see his back?
3. Where does the narrator of Lawns go to college?
4. What does the narrator of the story Home do for a living while she is living with her mother?
5. In the story Trains, how old are Danica and Jane?
Short Essay Questions
1. What inspiration does Gunther in Men Under Water get about his next screenplay after visiting Acid Rain? Who does he find waiting for him at his home when he and the narrator pull up to his house?
2. Why does Daniel not want the narrator of Home to see his back?
3. In the story Helping, who are Elliot and Grace and what do they do for a living? How are their jobs similar and how are they different?
4. Who is Vopotik in the story Helping?
5. In the story Daddy Garbage, how does Strayhorn discover the baby in the box?
6. In Rules of the Game, what is Meimei's mother's "chang"?
7. How does Connie's mother treat her?
8. What are some of the superstitious things the soldiers carry with them, and what is the most unusual of them?
9. In the short story Aunt Granny Lith, who is Aunt Granny Lith?
10. Who is the main character of Departures? How old is he when the story opens? Where is he going?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When Danica asks Mr. Muirhead, in the story Train, whether she and Jane will be friends forever, how does he respond? Why does he know these things about his daughter, and likewise know Danica is not like his daughter?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the use of metaphors in the story Men Under Water. How do they reflect the relationship between the narrator and Gunther?
Essay Topic 3
In Cathedral, the husband and Robert are very different people. Robert is blind and the husband is not, but that is not the most important different between them. How do these characters exchange sight in the evening they spend together? How does the evening change both men?
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