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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. When does Joan take an art class at Rhodes in Chapter 20?

2. What is the date in Chapter 23?

3. What time is Miriam's wedding held?

4. How far of a drive is the prison where Derek is incarcerated from Memphis?

5. What color bandanas do the Douglass Park Bishops wear tried around their biceps?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are August, Miriam, and Joan doing in Chapter 24, when the doorbell rings after two in the morning, and who do they find at the door?

2. What does Della do for a living, and what type of job does she do?

3. How does Mya react when the World Trade Center towers fell and the Pentagon was attacked?

4. When Joan is a junior in high school, what art class is she taking?

5. How did Hazel's father die?

6. When did Miriam graduate from nursing school, and what was her graduation ceremony like?

7. What does Miss Dawn tell Joan when Joan tells her about applying to art school in London?

8. What flood has affected Memphis in 1937?

9. Why is Derek arrested in Chapter 18?

10. What shop is a staple in the North Memphis neighborhood where Hazel lives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A German Jew establishes a deli in the North Memphis neighborhood where the Norths live. Why does the deli become a fixture in North Memphis?

Essay Topic 2

Della is a skilled seamstress. Why would she be considered an artist?

Essay Topic 3

An allusion is a figure of speech that does not directly refer to a person, place, or thing. What are some allusions in Memphis: A Novel? Why might it be difficult to decipher an allusion just by the context of a passage in a book? How do the allusions Stringfellow uses help readers’ understanding of characters or concepts?

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