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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

As the family drives north, the narrator (and Leni, thanks to free indirect discourse) describes a book as “propped up like a pup tent, yellowed pages splayed out” (21). Why is this description significant? (from Chapters 3-4)

The narrator’s language shows how Leni has begun to think in Alaska-related images.

All of Leni’s possessions are worn out, like the “yellowed pages” of the book.

Leni has neglected the book because she wants to be a part of her own story.

Leni has lost interest in reading, which had once been important to her.

2.

Leni compares Geneva's death to literary death scenes. What is the main difference, according to her? (from Chapters 8-9)

Deaths in real life are numbing, deaths in books emotional.

In real life, death provides no sense of closure.

The sadness is the same but comes from different sources.

Only deaths in books have meaning.

3.

Why is Cora’s funeral the right final scene for the book? (from Chapters 30-31)

It focuses on the future instead of the past.

It represents the victory of nurturing love over toxic love.

It recalls Mad Earl’s funeral.

It shows Leni’s whole family reunited.

4.

Leni decides at the end of Chapter 22 that she is now willing to leave Cora behind. Why? (from Chapters 20-22)

She never understood Ernt’s obsession with Cora before.

She cares more about Matthew than about Cora.

She no longer believes Cora will come with her.

She does not love her parents anymore.

5.

Leni, through the narrator, interjects that Matthew can be certain of the college plan “because he knew how to dream and to believe” (258). Which word best describes this character trait in Matthew? (from Chapters 17-19)

Optimism.

Blind faith.

Naïveté.

Positivism.

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