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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. Whom does the narrator cite as the author of A Season of War and Loss?

2. To where does Mrs. Abigail Blass say she traveled repeatedly with her husband to visit his mother in Chapter 27?

3. Who is the fictional author of the fictional work Those Most Joyful Years?

4. For how long does Roger Bevins III say that Russo stayed in the bardo after she was taken in her sixth year?

5. Who wrote Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Mr. Bevins and Mr. Vollman set out seeking Abraham Lincoln in Chapter 36?

2. How is the appearance of Roger Bevins III described in Chapter 9?

3. How does Hans Vollman describe his death in Chapter 1?

4. What is the inciting incident that transitions the plot to rising action?

5. How is Mr. Collier described in the novel?

6. What does the tendril that wraps Willie symbolic of?

7. How does Roger Bevins III describe his suicide attempt in Chapter 9?

8. How are Mr. Randall and Mr. Twood described?

9. Who is Flanders Quinn and how is he described?

10. How is Abraham Lincoln's demeanor described in the Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Isabelle Perkins excerpt in Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and analyze the characterization of Willie Lincoln in Lincoln in the Bardo. How old is Willie when he dies? How does he die? What are his perceptions of the bardo? What is Willie's main objective in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the main setting of the bardo in the novel. How significant is the setting to the plot of the novel? What details of the setting are described by the author? What mood does this setting evoke?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the author's insertion of both fictional and nonfictional essays, excerpts, letters, etc. in Lincoln in the Bardo. What purpose to these excerpts serve? What information do they relate? Why do you think the author does not delineate the real-life excerpts from the fictional ones?

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