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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 happens to the answer to #81?

2. In whose house does Sula live?

3. Who is dark with unpredictable moments?

4. How long into marriage does Helene have a daughter?

5. What does Hannah discover about the answer to #69?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the rumors that begin to fly about Sula?

2. Who are the characters who have always been known to 'be as one'?

3. What does Sula threaten when she is talking with Eva?

4. What does Eva have to say about Hannah's accusations?

5. What amazes Nel as she considered the way things have changed?

6. Why is Shadrack arrested after his release from the hospital?

7. What does Nel realize she feels about Chicken Little's death?

8. Why does Eva sit in a wagon?

9. What does Hannah take to her mother on Thursday?

10. What is the date of National Suicide Day?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Sula has an affair with Jude, this seems to be the biggest blow to her friendship with Nel. Why did Sula have the affair in the first place? What is Nel's reaction? Why doesn't Jude go back to Nel? What does the affair seem to say about the dynamics between women and men as opposed to those between women?

Essay Topic 2

Sula's reputation in the town becomes the thing of rumors and whispers. What are some of the things people of the town are saying she is? What does this do to the rest of the town? What affect does Sula have on the town as a whole? What begins to change in the Bottom? What does this seem to show? Can one person really affect a town that much?

Essay Topic 3

Eva is constantly taking in new people into her home, but what are her motivations for doing so? What does she say her motivations are? What do you think she really wants from these people? How do her actions in taking people in affect those boarders? Are there any success stories of the people who have lived in her home?

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