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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 Ethan do to make people think he will be in the bathroom?

2. What was Ethan a monument of to Marullo?

3. How much money does Ethan say he is buying Marullo's store for?

4. Whom does Ethan say he think turned Marullo into the Department of Immigration?

5. What did the clerks at the bank do all day when Ethan heard he now owned the store?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Marullo tell Ethan when he offers to let Ethan take some time off?

2. What does Ethan say July usually is?

3. What did Ethan plan to do to make people believe he was in the bathroom during the robbery?

4. What does Ethan do when Biggers comes into the store for the first time after Ethan owns it?

5. What does Joey say that shows Ethan his bank robbery might have failed?

6. What does Margie offer to do for Ethan and Mary on the day Ethan learns he now owns the store?

7. What does Mr. Baker say he would do for Ethan if he finds Danny?

8. What does Margie say to Ethan while he is on a walk after Allen's party?

9. What changes Ethan's mind about what he wanted to do a the end of the book?

10. How does Mary respond when she hears that Ethan now owns the store?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character do you relate with the most in this book? Why is this? How does this character change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 2

How does Ellen's relationship with her brother change over the course of the plot, and what is the main event that causes their feelings about each other to change so dramatically?

Essay Topic 3

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

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