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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 is Harriet sick with?

2. What is Clyde's job at Patty Jane's business?

3. Where is Harriet buying when she bumps into Reese in Chapter 18?

4. How does Nora react to her father's reappearance in Chapter 23?

5. Why is Patty Jane unhappy with Harriet when she returns home in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Patty Jane attend in Chapter 18? What does she find incomprehensible about the event?

2. Why does Harriet hope to find Merry in Chapter 21? Who does Harriet spot with the crazy woman in Chapter 21?

3. What do the doctors tell Ione and Patty Jane about Thor's condition in Chapter 23?

4. How does Reese help Harriet in Chapters 18 and 19?

5. Where does Harriet awake in Chapter 17? How does she figure out how she got to this place? What does Harriet realize when she looks at the newspaper?

6. What happens to Harriet while she is riding on a bus in Chapter 14? Where does Harriet go afterward?

7. What does Patty Jane discover one day when she returns home in Chapter 11? Why are Patty Jane and Ione especially worried?

8. Why does Patty Jane write to Avel's sisters in Chapter 11?

9. What is Harriet doing when she runs into Reese in Chapter 18? What does Reese give her?

10. What does Harriet realize about drinking in Chapter 14? How does Patty Jane react when Harriet returns home drunk?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of alcoholism in the novel "Patty Jane's House of Curl." What are some examples of when alcohol leads to problems for the characters, particularly Harriet. How did Patty Jane's and Harriet's parents' alcoholism affect them?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motif of separation in the novel. What are some examples of separation in the novel? How do these examples of separation affect the characters?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the motif of grief in the novel. What are some examples of grief or grieving in the novel? Why are the characters grieving in these examples?

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