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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. How far does Al drive the car?

2. Why was Al sent to prison?

3. What possession of her grandfather's does Irma wish she had?

4. What nationality is the person in #20?

5. How does Ed feel about his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Julian's cycle of alcohol abuse exhibit on this fateful night?

2. Why does the author choose to describe more of the setting in Chapter 3, Part 1?

3. How does the author use Caroline as the typical example of a young woman and her options in the 1920s?

4. What does William English do for the first ten years after his father's death?

5. In what way does Caroline show that she does not have any better coping skills that Julian does?

6. What does this chapter reveal about the story's protagonist, Julian English?

7. What does Foxie tell Al about Ed's girlfriend, Helene?

8. What effects does alcoholism have on Julian's life?

9. How does Julian's father react to Julian's death?

10. Who is Al Grecco?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the racial discrimination in Gibbsville. How is it displayed? What is the racial demographic of Gibbsville? Why does Irma feel entitled to live there but resents some others who do?

Essay Topic 2

What is the irony of Julian's wish to use his middle initials--McH? What do the initials indicate about his background? Why is Julian so proud of his initials? What would Julian's feelings be about his initials if he were to discover their actual heritage?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Ed Charney. What is his role in the story? What is his relationship with Al Grecco? With Julian English?

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