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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 much does Becky inherit from Shirley?
2. Clem’s girlfriend Sharon is what level grade student at college?
3. When Bradley breaks up with Marion, he tells her she was what?
4. What disease kills Shirley?
5. Who opens the door at Isabelle’s apartment, when Marion goes there for help being pregnant?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Russ refuse to talk to Ambrose after Russ’s humiliation event?
2. What effect does the author present by mentioning Russ’s “humiliation” in the early pages of the book, but not explaining what happened for several hundred pages into the reading?
3. Why do Frances and Russ ignore Pastor Theo Crenshaw’s advice to leave the neighborhood boy Ronnie alone?
4. How is Judson treated as a character in the novel?
5. Marion always said that Shirley had no use for women, and only wanted men in her life. How does Marion end up being the same way in her own life?
6. What happens to Sharon when Clem breaks up with him?
7. What is the “humiliation” that Russ suffered on the first mission trip to Arizona with the Crossroads group of teens?
8. What was Frances Cottrell’s marriage like to her husband before he died?
9. Why does Marion still feel guilty for her father’s suicide?
10. What does Sally say to Ambrose, that Russ told her about Russ’s marriage?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Identify the reasons that Marion felt that she had been an angel and a devil at different times in her life. Be specific in detailing the events that made her feel good and bad about her actions in relation to other people in her past.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that lists all of the illegal actions of Perry throughout the book. Why did his parents never punish him or intervene, even when they caught him selling drugs to school-aged children? Be specific.
Essay Topic 3
Specify some ways the character of Judson could have been more developed in the novel. Not much is said about the youngest child Judson; why do you think the author made him such a minor character in the book? Why did he have him as a sibling at all as part of the Hildebrandt family?
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