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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. From which country have many of the residents of the community immigrated from?

2. What does Thor imagine during the photo shoot in Chapter 5?

3. What is Ione pleased by in Chapter 3?

4. What kind of vehicle were the couples going to use on New Year's Eve in Chapter 4?

5. How are the two women that Avel and Thor spend time with in Chapter 4 described?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Avel send Patty Jane in Chapter 9? What does she do with it?

2. What bet does Harriet make with Avel Ames in Chapter 2?

3. Who picks Harriet up in Chapter 2 and where do they go?

4. How does Thor show a change during his walk home at dawn in Chapter 6?

5. How does Ione anger Patty Jane in Chapter 9?

6. What does Harriet show Avel when he returns to town in Chapter 6?

7. What do we find out about Nora's father in the prologue?

8. Where is "Patty Jane's House of Curl" set? What is the community like?

9. How does Patty Jane and Ione's relationship change during Patty Jane's pregnancy?

10. What does Ione notice as Patty Jane's pregnancy becomes more obvious?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the setting of the novel. How important is the setting to a novel? What if the novel had been set in a different place and time? In your opinion, would the choices of main characters be different? If so, how?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and interpret the character Nora. What does she reveal of her character while she is the narrator in the epilogue and prologue? Describe her relationships with her parents. What are her defining character traits?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss at least three examples of conflict in the novel. What are the causes of these conflicts? How do they affect the characters? How are these conflicts resolved?

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