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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. Whose wedding has July recently attended in the epilogue?

2. What does Louella do before revealing her news to July?

3. What happens to the first draft of the response July writes to the letter she receives?

4. Where does July begin to experience pain?

5. When Mrs. Gerher invites July for dinner, what does her mother criticize Bo Jo for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What opportunity does July sense both sets of parents see in the death of her son?

2. Who offers July a ride home from the post office? What does July accuse this person of?

3. How does Louella feel after her abortion?

4. How is the distance between the Jones and Greher families evident at the picnic?

5. Why don't Bo Jo and July want to get a divorce?

6. What does July hear about Nicholas weeks after Louella leaves town?

7. What leads to baby Jonathan's death?

8. How does July think Bo Jo will feel about her family's paying her doctor's bills? How does Bo Jo actually feel?

9. What does Bo Jo say to July after meeting Louella?

10. What does Bo Jo accuse July of when she returns from visiting Louella?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of family in the novel "Mr and Mrs Bo Jo Jones." Is family important to July? How does her family influence her decision-making and her relationship with Bo Jo? How does Bo Jo's family influence him? How does July's family take the news of her pregnancy and marriage?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and interpret the protagonist of the novel, July Greher. What are her defining character traits? What struggles does she face throughout the novel? How does she grow as a character as the novel progresses?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the conclusion of the novel "Mr and Mrs Bo Jo Jones." How does the novel conclude? Is it a happy ending for July? Why or why not? Is the ending believable? Why or why not?

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