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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 Ob tries to contact May, what analogy does Summer use to describe how Ob moves around?

2. How many TV dinners did Summer cook for Cletus and Ob on Christmas Day?

3. How long has Summer lived with Ob and May?

4. What cartoon character was used for whirligigs where Summer used to live?

5. What subject does the teacher teach who has a face-lift?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Summer expect May to show up in Chapter 5?

2. What nickname does Cletus give the minster of the spiritualist church?

3. What does Cletus want to be when he grows up?

4. Who was the one person in Deep Water who has had a face-lift?

5. How does Ob describe the way that May feels in Chapter 2?

6. How was Ob injured in the war?

7. What happened to a bat that May injured?

8. How did Summer feel about the love that Ob and Mary had?

9. What happened when Cletus died and then came back to life?

10. How did Ob meet Cletus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ob persuades the Underwoods to allow Cletus to go on the trip to the spiritualist church. Discuss how Ob persuades the Underwoods to allow Cletus to go on the trip and whether Ob stretches the truth.

Essay Topic 2

Summer comments that she and Ob are not strong now that May is gone. Discuss how Summer and Ob deal with May's death.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss dynamic and static characters in the novel and the changes that the dynamic characters experience.

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