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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 term do the girls use to describe Melorra in Chapter Seven?
2. Enid takes a special class to learn how to do what?
3. What does Enid order at Hubba Hubba's?
4. What time do Enid and Rebecca set up a date for "Bearded Windbreaker"?
5. Enid describes a fetus as what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Rebecca respond when she learns that Enid wants to go to college?
2. What unusual family dynamic did Enid grow up with and how did it affect her?
3. Why does Enid take driving lessons?
4. Why is John Ellis going on a talk show?
5. When Enid goes to Josh's apartment alone, what happens?
6. What do Rebecca and Enid make fun of, once they are at Hubba Hubba?
7. Why does Rebecca feel betrayed when she learns Enid plans to go to college?
8. Why did Enid give the nickname "Norman" to the man always waiting at the bus stop?
9. Why does Enid try to track down a childhood record?
10. Once Enid takes the college entry test, what are the next steps in the college entry process?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When Enid bumps into John Crowley, he berates her for continuing to live her life outside of the corporate world.
1) Who is John Crowley? What is his relationship to Enid?
2) Who was John Crowley? Who is he now?
3) Why does John Crowley want Enid to follow in his footsteps?
Essay Topic 2
At the beginning of "Ghost World", Rebecca and Enid spend much of their time making fun of other people. They do this to create an emotional detachment from their relationships and the world around them. Write an essay examining this idea of emotional detachment as a coping strategy, taking a stand on why the girls choose to live their life in this fashion.
Essay Topic 3
When Enid hosts a garage sale, she is unwilling to sell one of her favorite childhood toys to a man she doesn't like but is quick to abandon the sale, leaving everything at risk for theft.
1) Why was Enid unwilling to sell "Goofie Gus"?
2) How might the struggle against this emotional detachment result in abandoning the sale?
3) Why does Enid run home at the end of the day, hoping nothing has been stolen from her sale?
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