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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. In which era does Zevin finish her novel?
2. In which of the following does Zevin live?
3. Which of the following games is a reported inspiration for Pioneers?
4. Which of the following does Marx offer the intruders into his office?
5. With which of the following do Sam and Sadie make a game?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Marx value the end of The Iliad?
2. What does Sadie note attracted her to Pioneers?
3. To what is the initial success of Mapleworld ascribed?
4. Why does Alabaster suggest Emily stock greeting cards?
5. What does Zevin note as of interest about her novel’s typeface?
6. Why does Emily give her neighbors rocks?
7. Why does Sadie assert there should be marriages in Mapleworld?
8. What sadness does Marx purpose to express (284)?
9. What initially prompted Marx to attend to Sam?
10. Why does Marx hesitate to tell Sam of his romance with Sadie?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
A character in the novel remarks that “the people who give you charity are never your friends. It is not possible to receive charity from a friend” (23). Is the character’s remark correct? What in the novel and in experience indicate as much, and how do they do so?
Essay Topic 2
In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow bear as much out?
Essay Topic 3
To what other writer’s work in your experience does Zevin’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?
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