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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 the name of C’s father’s second wife?

2. In which of the following states does Rose live?

3. What color shirt is the man wearing who hits Cee’s brother with his car?

4. From which of the following is the epigraph taken?

5. Which of the following does C’s stepmother wear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problem in Cee’s mother’s painting does Cee identify?

2. What is the typical subject of Cee’s mother’s painting?

3. In the novel, how does life span integration work?

4. What is the “gorgeous idiotic thing” Caleb does (67)?

5. Why does Cee note her brother had trouble drawing straight lines?

6. Why is C’s mother mad about the loss of the gift from Lu?

7. For what reasons does C accuse Reena and her friends of racism?

8. What advice is C given by a nurse at the hospital?

9. How does Rose respond to the loss of her breasts to cancer?

10. Of what do Cee’s mother and Grandma Lu typically talk?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

For what reason does one narrator’s grandmother hold them in such disdain? What in the novel suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Sources attest to the presence of The Furrows on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

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