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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. While Bo Jo is working, where does July run into Louella Consuela?

2. Why do July and Bo Jo sleep at Bo Jo's parents' house on their second night as newlyweds?

3. What grade is Mary Ann's boyfriend in?

4. What is the name of Mary Ann's boyfriend?

5. Where does Bo Jo plan to go after high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What details are given about July's marriage ceremony to Bo Jo?

2. Why does Bo Jo refuse July's father's job offer?

3. Why does Mrs. Jones feel embarrassed by her house warming gift for Bo Jo and July?

4. How does Bo Jo react when July tells him that she is pregnant?

5. Why does Mrs. Jones refuse to attend Bo Jo and July's wedding ceremony?

6. Who is Horace Clark, and why does July spend time with him?

7. What worry does Mary Ann confide to July about her boyfriend Alan?

8. Where are Bo Jo and July invited to go to dinner together? What does July learn about during the dinner?

9. What is it like when Bo Jo and July are able to spend some time with their old gang of friends again?

10. What does Mrs. Jones teach July in the two weeks before she and Bo Jo are to move out?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the issue of abortion in 1960s American and how abortion is depicted in the novel "Mr and Mrs Bo Jo Jones". What is the public opinion of abortion during the 1960s in America? How is it depicted in the novel? What do the principle characters think of abortion? Why might Head include Louella's abortion; what message might she have sent?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motif of deception in the novel "Mr and Mrs Bo Jo Jones." Who deceives whom and why? July often deceives others in the novel, but is she a deceitful character? Why or why not? Why does she feel that she has to deceive her loved ones, particularly at the beginning of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the motif of choices in the novel "Mr and Mrs Bo Jo Jones." What choices is July forced to make. Does she feel that she made the right choices? Do her parents make any choices for her?

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