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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 three things does J.P. mention hearing from the bottom of the well?

2. When do J.P.'s hands become steady?

3. When the narrator meets J.P.'s wife, what does he notice about her hands?

4. Whose car do the narrator and his girlfriend take to the facility?

5. How does J.P.'s wife give him her phone number when he asks her out the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tiny stay at the facility?

2. Chimney sweeping is an uncommon job. Why would the author choose it?

3. Is the narrator's girlfriend also an alcoholic?

4. Why does the proprietor recommend "The Call of the Wild" to J.P. and the narrator?

5. Give of an example of how the narrator practices avoidance.

6. Describe the character Frank Martin.

7. Why did the author choose the title "Where I'm Calling From"?

8. How is the image of cold weather used in the story?

9. How does J.P. treat his wife?

10. How do the narrator's two trips to the treatment facility differ?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many details in the story are vague, while others are very precise. For example, J.P. is "eighteen or nineteen" when he meets his wife, but he remembers exactly what she is wearing. Explore how the author alternately uses vague and precise details and why.

Essay Topic 2

Compare how humility and arrogance are used in the story.

Essay Topic 3

The themes of both despair and hope figure in "Where I'm Calling From." Is the story ultimately more hopeless or hopeful? Give examples to back up your opinion.

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