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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 is happening to Heinrich's hair?
2. In what month does the book begin?
3. According to the doctor, what did Gladys die from?
4. Where did the psychic live?
5. Who was Gladys?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is so shocking about Jack's trouble with German?
2. Babette's class at the Church is made of what kind of people learning what activities?
3. What is Jack's position at the college?
4. What does Bee claim about the conflict between her mother and stepfather?
5. Why did Babette want to see "station-wagon" day?
6. Why did Jack name Heinrich Heinrich?
7. Why is Bob Pardee passing through town?
8. Jack opens up Chapter 20 by listing various people's deaths and talking about how they died. Name one of them, and describe why you think Jack is listing them.
9. Why do they bring Wilder to the doctor in Chapter 16?
10. What kind of exercise does Babette do? Does Jack join in?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Although many of the characters are unusual, Heinrich is one of the stranger characters. As a fourteen year old with a receding hairline, is he a good representation of the average American teenager? What are the things about Heinrich that you recognize in your peers and yourself? What things about him are different? Would you want to be friends with him, why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast Winnie Richard's attitudes about death, mortality and dying with those of Orest Mercator. How are these two alike, and how are they different? What does Jack learn from each of them?
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast Jack's wives. Write an essay that describes Dana, Janet, Tweedy and Babette in turn, and explains the ways in which they are similar or different. Why did Jack want to marry them? What caused conflicts in their marriages? What does this show readers about Jack?
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