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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 Zorrie briefly consider doing about Oats?
2. What did Harold once say when Zorrie spilled something on their table in their early years of marriage?
3. Who starts trying to date Zorrie in Part III?
4. What kind of music does Zorrie say she wants to buy?
5. What does Zorrie's would-be suitor say when he eventually gives up trying to win her over?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Ruby say to Zorrie about her visit to Opal in Part IV?
2. What does Zorrie do regularly that Ruby and Noah think helps Virgil?
3. In Part III, why does Zorrie feel new grief over her miscarriage many years earlier?
4. In Part IV, what does Zorrie realize about Noah's feelings about Zorrie's visit to Opal?
5. In Part IV, who does Hank ask to keep an eye on Noah, and why does he ask this?
6. What does Zorrie bring Opal when she goes to see her, and how does Opal react?
7. Who tries to woo Zorrie in Part III and how does it end up?
8. How does Noah react to his father Virgil's death?
9. What horrifies all the women who used to work at the radium factory in Part III?
10. In Part III, why does Zorrie travel to Ottawa?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does Mr. Thomas's kindness and care mean to Zorrie at a time, in Part I of the novel, when she is essentially homeless and very vulnerable? How does Laird communicate the meaning of Mr. Thomas's actions towards Zorrie to the reader? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
Why and how does Zorrie eventually decide to express her decades-long yearning and affection for Noah? What happens in the aftermath of this expression? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
What does Hunt reveal about Zorrie's community in Indiana with hers and Harold's experience of miscarriage? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
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