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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 project seems to suggest the emergence of treatments for many diseases, as explained in Chapter 33?
2. What is Peter Galvin determined to be, as explained in Chapter 40?
3. What new health problems does Don Galvin face in Chapter 28?
4. In what year does Mimi die, as discussed in Chapter 39?
5. How does Margaret feel about her mother, as discussed in Chapter 38?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Matt feel in the wake of his mother’s death, as he tells Lindsay in Chapter 40?
2. What memory does Margaret have about her mother in Chapter 42? What does she think of this memory?
3. According to the author in Chapter 43, what has not changed regarding schizophrenia? What has changed?
4. What does Robert Freedman attempt to develop in Chapter 32? Who shuts him down? Why?
5. What devastating news does Mimi learn in Chapter 31? How does she react?
6. What decision does Margaret make in Chapter 25? How do others in her life feel about this decision?
7. What is CHRNA7? What possible treatment does it inspire, as explained in Chapter 37?
8. What does the reader learn in Chapter 27 about how drug treatments for schizophrenia have changed over time?
9. What does Lindsay begin to consider in Chapter 25? What makes her consider this?
10. According to Nancy Gary in Chapter 44, why was Margaret rescued and not Lindsay? How does Lindsay react to this news?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Hidden Valley Road opens with an epigraph taken from Anne Tyler, who writes: “The clearest way that you can show endurance is by sticking with a family.” Using textual evidence to support your claims, show how Tyler’s words apply to Hidden Valley Road.
Essay Topic 2
The members of the Galvin family all highlight the idea the past is never truly past. Choose three individuals and explain how each illustrates this idea, using textual evidence to support your claims.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the importance of the mothers to the book. Mimi has a powerful impact on her children; later, Lindsay has a powerful impact on her two children. What other mothers appear in the book? Discuss the impact of mothers and how the issue of motherhood furthers the conflicts and themes of Hidden Valley Road.
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