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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 do Tyrone, Harry and Marion do at Marion's apartment?

2. When the television people ask Sara her name, what does she plan to tell them?

3. How does Arnold answer Marion's questions?

4. How does the librarian react to Sara?

5. What expressions do the babies carry in Marion's sketches?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would Marion ask Arnold about his wife?

2. Why can Marion not sketch?

3. In Part 3, how is reality infringing on Harry and Marion as they first struggle in their relationship?

4. When Tyrone and Harry fall short of the money they need, what does this symbolize?

5. What is the progress of Sara's diet as she tries to diet alone?

6. What is ironic about Harry's remark that "juice heads are too much, aren't they? They really have no class, no class at all"?

7. How do Harry and Marion have an oblivious separation from reality?

8. Why is Marion able to sketch again?

9. Why is it symbolic that Sara answers whatever intrusive question the television company asks her?

10. What feelings does Marion miss?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the literary effect of the story zigzagging between Harry and Sara's drug dependencies and downfalls?

Essay Topic 2

What is the symbolism behind the name "McDick Corporation"?

Essay Topic 3

How does the motif of damaged mother and son relationships grow throughout the novel?

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