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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 does Joxer Goode want to hire Dick to provide?

2. Where is the cocaine located on the ship?

3. What is Schuyler doing when Parker sees him the next morning?

4. What does Elsie prepare on board?

5. What does Elsie do that annoys Dick?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Parker's cunning behavior begin to signify?

2. What is the premise of SPARTINA?

3. What are the two viable options for funding for Dick's boat at this point?

4. How can Elsie be noted as the heroine of Chapter 10 and who would be the antithesis of that?

5. What is Dick's internal struggle regarding needing people and not wanting to appear that he does?

6. How does Dick feel about the fantasies that Elsie finds erotic?

7. How does the author show the vulnerable side of Elsie's normally strong personality?

8. How does Dick's attraction to Elsie begin?

9. What are the differences between how May and Elsie view Dick's boat project?

10. How does Dick misread the message that Elsie sends when she tells him to leave her with the secret of their affair?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Casey uses more than one instance of irony in the book. Cite at least two examples you can identify in the novel and note why they are examples of irony.

Essay Topic 2

Casey uses humor in the story to both entertain and convey character. Cite at least two examples which you find especially humorous.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the significance of the book's title. What did the author mean by calling the novel SPARTINA? Cite an example to support your answer.

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