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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 does Aunt Emily constantly keep her eye on?

2. Why is the meeting going to be serious?

3. About whom is John's aunt concerned?

4. What does Kate doubt?

5. Where does John live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of books does John like to read at the library?

2. What important question does John ask Kate in this chapter?

3. Why is Lonnie fasting?

4. Who has Kate started seeing to help with her depression?

5. Who does John run into after lunch with his aunt?

6. What does Kate reveal to John about her happiest day?

7. What does John begin to plan on his way back to the office?

8. What is very apparent about John and Aunt Emily's relationship?

9. Where does John ask Sharon to go with him?

10. Who is John excited to see and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

While the women in John's life obviously make demands of him, the men seem to impose little on John. What is the deeper connection between John and the following characters:

- Lonnie

- John's father

- Harold

Essay Topic 2

1. How is the theme of money inadvertently explored throughout the book?

2. John's family seems to be a staple of New Orleans society. How does having money make the family influential to the rest of the community?

Essay Topic 3

What is John and Kate's journey to Chicago symbolic of? How does their relationship change after they return to New Orleans?

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