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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. Who was Amelia's mother?

2. Who is the author's eldest brother?

3. What was the author's zip code growing up?

4. When did Lolo drop out of school, according to the author in "Movement I: Part I"?

5. Which of Sarah's siblings did not take his father's death well and went mute for a time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Simon Broom's job for most of his adult life? Where did he work?

2. Who was Webb? What happened to him?

3. What helped Ivory Mae to cope after losing Simon?

4. What profession did Lolo eventually take on? Where did she work?

5. When did Lolo go to Chicago? Why did she go?

6. What was New Orleans East like at the time when the ad for the Yellow House ran, according to the author in Movement I: Part V?

7. Who were the founder of New Orleans East, Inc.? How are they described?

8. What was MR-GO, and what were its impacts?

9. Why did Ivory Mae decide not to remarry after Simon's death?

10. When and how did the Yellow House come into the author's family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss three examples of simile and/or metaphor in The Yellow House. What is being compared? Why do you think the author makes this comparison? How does each example serve the reader?

Essay Topic 2

Describe three examples of irony from The Yellow House. How does the author use dramatic irony in the narrative? What situational irony can be perceived? What is the purpose of each example and how does it serve the story?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the structure of The Yellow House. How is the book broken into divisions? What is the significance of the titles of these divisions? How does the author develop the plot of the narrative?

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