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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. To what location does Dean take Evvie the first time he gives her a baseball lesson?

2. How many months does Evvie report it had taken her to fully absorb that her mother was never coming back to finish raising her?

3. Evvie agrees to go with Dean to pick up his pinball machine on the condition that he take what action once they get there?

4. Evvie recalls that just a few days after she had packed the car to leave Tim, he had referred to her career as a transcriber with what other term?

5. How many people are said to be in attendance at the exhibition game as Dean throws his first pitch?

Short Essay Questions

1. Characterize the relationship between Evvie and her father Frank.

2. Discuss an instance in the text when Holmes uses humor in order to clearly illustrate a particular character's fear of change.

3. For what length of time has Tim been gone by the time Evvie first meets with Dr. Talco?

4. How does Dean come to pitch an inning at the exhibition game between the Claws and the team from Freeport?

5. Describe an instance when the use of a third person omniscient narrator helps Holmes demonstrate duplicity.

6. With what information does Andy confront Evvie in Winter: Chapter 18 when he arrives unannounced at her house after ten at night?

7. How does Holmes use the motif of sound in order to demonstrate Dean's love for the game of baseball?

8. Describe how Evvie had always felt about blushing prior to meeting Dean.

9. What is the symbolism inherent in the scar on Evvie's foot?

10. For what reason does Evvie refrain from telling Andy about recent developments with Dean?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What messages does Holmes send about domestic violence in Evvie Drake Starts Over and what scenarios are employed in order to send these messages to the reader?

Essay Topic 2

How do the themes of deception and secrecy function within Evvie Drake Starts Over and what is Holmes’s message regarding these themes?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Holmes's purpose for juxtaposing at least two different locations in a particular way within the text of Evvie Drake Starts Over.

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