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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. How does Clare learn that Miss Mattie's land has been abandoned?

2. In "Chapter 1," what origin is given for the word "ruinate"?

3. Where does the truck head, in "Chapter 1"?

4. Where do Kitty and Boy first land in the United States?

5. Whose headstone does Kitty visit at the cemetery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Christopher do, at the end of "Chapter 2"?

2. How does Clare say she learned about her blackness?

3. How does Boy feel about life in America, in "Chapter 3"?

4. What does Clare do, at the end of "Chapter 4"?

5. What is ruinate?

6. How does Clare feel about her relationship with Kitty after Kitty returns to Jamaica?

7. Why is ganja important to the soldiers?

8. What is revealed about Paul and Christopher when they talk to each other, in "Chapter 2"?

9. How do the soldiers in "Chapter 1" feel about ruinate?

10. What flashback occurs in "Chapter 3"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways is violence shown as a solution, in "No Telephone to Heaven"? In what ways is violence denounced? Overall, what is the author's commentary on violence?

Essay Topic 2

What role does education play in this novel? What types of education are presented?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the truck as a symbol. What does this truck represent? How does it relate to the major themes of this novel?

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