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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 town does June work as a nurse practitioner?

2. What model car does Dori drive?

3. What team does Demon first play against after his injury?

4. What article does Tommy show Demon?

5. Where does Demon’s gifted and talented trip end?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Demon charge his classmates extra to draw faces and hands?

2. Why does Demon find himself missing his mother when he arrives at the Winfield home?

3. Why does June break up with Kent?

4. What is Dori’s father’s reported cause of death?

5. What does Tommy do at the local newspaper?

6. Why does Demon look forward to his Backgrounds project?

7. What is the general reaction to the September 11 attacks where Demon lives?

8. In the novel, what does the term “smurfing” refer to?

9. Why had Demon not encountered Dori at school?

10. What does Annie tell Demon every teacher hopes to see?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Overall, what is the most important theme of Demon Copperhead. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Kingsolver’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 3

The lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

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