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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. The meeting described in the novel's epigraph takes place in which state?
2. Henry gets a job working for what kind of company in Chapter One?
3. Lizzie takes comfort in her realization that "No one's worrying about" (18) what celestial object?
4. When Lizzie once took Eli along on one of Sylvia's excursions, they went to what type of location?
5. What term does Lizzie use to describe Henry's drug of choice prior to getting sober?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what reason does Lizzie go on fewer trips with Sylvia in the summer?
2. Discuss an instance when the motif of dreams enters the narrative of Chapter Two.
3. Why is Lizzie relieved when Henry and Catherine decide not to have a big wedding?
4. What act of altruism does Lizzie fondly remember from the night she gave birth to Eli?
5. Who is Sylvia?
6. What time of year is it by the time Chapter One comes to a close?
7. Where does Henry go when he loses his apartment in Chapter One?
8. What is the significance of the scene in which Eli and Lizzie gaze at the moon together in Chapter One?
9. Describe the protagonist's immediate family as depicted in Chapter One of Weather: A Novel.
10. What is the significance of Sylvia's explanation of the human response to applause in Chapter Two?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Offill's messages about parenthood within the text Weather: A Novel.
Essay Topic 2
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Offill’s novel Weather: A Novel. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
Essay Topic 3
Examine the effects of stress on the novel's characters and the coping methods each character uses to deal with emotional turmoil. Which characters' methods are effective, which are ineffective, and how do these varying levels of efficiency affect the messages sent by Weather: A Novel within the text?
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