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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 make of car does June drive?

2. In what county is Demon’s mother buried?

3. What was the name of Maggot’s mother?

4. How much could a tobacco farmer expect to earn per acre?

5. Where does the preacher preach who first gives Demon a ride?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Demon not to be reassigned to Crickson after leaving the McCobbs?

2. What gift does June get Demon the Christmas after his mother dies?

3. How does Maggot get his nickname?

4. Why does the narrator note he was unlikely to survive birth?

5. How does Fast Forward justify defrauding the other foster-children at the Crickson farm?

6. How does Tommy typically avert the mistake of wasting water?

7. Why is Demon obliged to catch a school bus on the side of the highway?

8. Why does Demon believe he cannot drown?

9. Why does Mr. Golly make much of handing people food?

10. Why does Demon not remember many of his caseworkers’ names?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of Demon Copperhead do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

How does the novel define family? What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Much is made of the connection between Kingsolver’s novel and the work of Charles Dickens. In what ways does Kingsolver echo Dickens in the present novel? Does it improve or hinder the reading that she does or does not? How so?

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