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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 "Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents," what was the name of the narrator's first crush?
2. In "Flying Lessons," what does Santosh's grandmother keep doing to him?
3. In "Main Street," what has the narrator lost?
4. In "Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push," what does the narrator's father always seem to say?
5. In "Choctaw Bigfoot, Midnight in the Mountains," what does the narrator say is the reason the uncle knows so much about Bigfoot?
Short Essay Questions
1. How are the Choctaw involved in "Choctaw Bigfoot"?
2. In "Seventy-Six Dollars," describe what Monk is writing and how.
3. What career did the narrator's father have in "Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push."
4. In "Choctaw Bigfoot," who are the Bohpoli and what are they like?
5. In "Seventy-Six Dollars," how does Monk convince Herve that he has superpowers?
6. What does the title "Main Street" have to do with the story?
7. In "Choctaw Bigfoot," what does the narrator's mother tell him about his uncle?
8. In "Main Street," why does the narrator lose her old friends once Celeste arrives?
9. In "Choctaw Bigfoot," what is the narrator's attitude towards his uncle and the story he tells?
10. In "Flying Lessons," what does Santosh say is his "deal with the devil"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose two or more stories from this collection and write an essay in which you compare/ contrast how money plays an important role in what happens and the messages the authors are trying to get across.
Essay Topic 2
In an essay, compare and contrast how at least two of these stories deal with issues of race and/ or culture.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you think about how and why Santosh's opinion of his grandmother changes over the course of the story "Flying Lessons." How does this change affect what the story is trying to tell us.
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