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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 color is Alfred's favorite chair?

2. What does Alfred have on the west side of his ping pong table?

3. What city does Gary want Enid and Alfred to move to?

4. What is missing when Gary arrives home?

5. Who does Gary say is clinically depressed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Julie dislike Chip's script?

2. Why does Alfred think the blacks will destroy America?

3. Why does Caroline have a problem with Enid?

4. Why did Enid feel jealous of her neighbors while awaiting her third child?

5. What does Alfred think about the stock market?

6. Why is a mixed grill important to Gary and his family?

7. What is Chip thinking about as he waits for his parents at the airport?

8. What does Gitanas's printout say about Lithuania?

9. Why is Gary so angry when he finishes talking on the phone to his father?

10. How did Denise determine that she didn't become a squishy liberal?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss elements of the narrative structure; exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

Essay Topic 2

Look at the generation gap between younger and the older characters. What different experiences did both generations go through? What problems is the generation gap causing the relationships between the characters?

Essay Topic 3

What did Chip find out about himself in Lithuania? Why did Chip need to go to Lithuania? What would have happened to Chip if he had stayed in the States?

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