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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 is mother doing while Tom sits by the front door screen?
2. What does mother call the specter of death?
3. What does Douglas suggest he and Tom own together?
4. Which of the following words means about the same thing as the word distilled as it is used in the following sentence? The distilled brew will serve the family well.
5. Which of the following doesn't Helen show to the children?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe a typical summer night for Douglas' family.
2. What can be said that Leo has tampered with when he follows through on building the Happiness Machine?
3. How did Helen overcome her exasperation at the children not being able to accept the fact that she was once young?
4. What does the beating of the rugs symbolize to Douglas and Tom both?
5. Describe how Douglas feels as he completes the task for his grandfather and describe what the tasks are.
6. How do Tom's fears come to surround him, make him feel, and expand into his imagination?
7. Based on Tom's habit of keeping statistics, what idea does Douglas implement himself?
8. Which brother seems more like the father and in what way do they seem to be the same?
9. Why is Frank confused at the message that Douglas gives to him to relay to his sisters?
10. Why does Douglas believe that he must get new sneakers to keep his new found sense of aliveness?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Kinship and personal connections are often explored throughout the novel. How and why is this an important part of the novel's themes? Do you agree with the way the author portrays these concepts? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
What powerful recognition does Douglas come to at the end of the novel? How is this recognition important? What does it represent in his life?
Essay Topic 3
Generation gaps are explored throughout the novel. In what way is this important to the understanding of the characters of this novel? How do you personally relate to members of your own family who are from other generations? Use specific examples.
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