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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. In what year does Chapter 5 take place?
2. What is peculiar about the phone bill Silas finds in Larry's house?
3. What does Silas discover underneath the place where his bed had used to be within the cabin in the woods?
4. Who calls Silas in Chapter 4 to tell him that Larry is alive?
5. What is featured in the shocking photograph that Silas finds during his search of Larry's house?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 8, at the diner, Silas tells Angie a variety of "things he'd never said out loud" (141). Name several of these.
2. Describe French's character.
3. Discuss a moment in the text when Franklin causes the reader to wonder about Larry's role in the murders he is suspected by the community as having committed.
4. In what way does Franklin compare and contrast the respective vehicles belonging to Silas and to Larry?
5. In what way is the theme of family bonds underscored within Chapter 1?
6. What had been the impetus for Silas and his mother's move out of south Chicago?
7. What details does Franklin use in order to indicate to the reader just how small Cabot, Mississippi really is and how it functions as such?
8. What does Silas ultimately find underneath the flock of buzzards?
9. What is Silas's reaction when Larry tells a story about Cecil's reckless use of fireworks?
10. In what way, if any, does Carl finally address with Larry the subject of the fight over the rifle?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Determine Franklin's message regarding the idea that the setting in which a person grows up has a direct influence on one’s identity.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the reasons why the novel Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter uses a third person omniscient narrator. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what is Franklin's intended effect on the reader?
Essay Topic 3
Look carefully at the passages of the novel that describe the close relationship between fear and persecution. What is Franklin's purpose for discussing at length the nature of the connection between these two themes?
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