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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 does Henry accuse Lydia of being before Mindy arrives?

2. What does Tammie offer to sell Henry for cash the first day that she meets him?

3. Who does Lydia tell Henry that she cheated on him with in Chapter 15?

4. What does Nicole compare Henry's poetry to?

5. How do Henry and Tammie celebrate their impending trip?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens between Henry and Dee Dee Bronson in Chapters 17 through 20?

2. What does Henry say in Chapter 3 that insults Lydia, and how does she respond?

3. Where does Henry go in Chapter 54, and why?

4. What happens while Henry is in Arkansas in Chapter 8?

5. What is Valerie's role in Chapter 9?

6. How do Nicole and Henry view each other in Chapter 21?

7. Who is Mindy, and how does Henry meet her?

8. Describe Henry's encounter in Chapter 10.

9. How does Henry's relationship with Tammie develop?

10. What happens at the party in Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the different symbols (Henry's apartment, the sculpture of Henry's head, etc.) used throughout the novel to represent abstract concepts? Detail and explain how the symbols are used to describe certain abstract concepts and which concepts they describe.

Essay Topic 2

How does the first person point-of-view enhance and inhibit the story? How would the novel be different if a different point of view were used?

Essay Topic 3

Investigate "Women" as a comic novel. How does it adhere to and differ from the typical comic novel? What changes could be made to mark it more clearly as comic fiction? What changes could be made to prevent critics from classifying the novel as comic fiction?

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