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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 prevents Daphne from returning straight to Camp Cooville?
2. How does Daphne take it when Alice tells her that she grieved the loss of her children but she carried on?
3. Who is the hostess at the Antelope Meadows?
4. How does Daphne tell Hugo she will straighten out the situation caused by her absence?
5. What does Daphne say her checking balance is, after the second meal at the Golden Spike?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Daphne’s epiphany about motherhood in Day 9?
2. What kind of exit strategy does Daphne imagine for herself?
3. How does Alice explain the death of her children?
4. What are the issues that are aired during the board of supervisors meeting?
5. What are Daphne’s and Alice’s different views about Daphne’s idea of going to the town where Ellery and Maryam had their accident?
6. What explanation does Alice give Daphne for why she came through this area?
7. What does Daphne say when Alice asks her why she is AWOL from her job?
8. What kind of child-care arrangements does Alice say she and her husband had made?
9. What explanation does Daphne offer to the daycare and to her job?
10. How do Daphne and Alice end up joining forces for the trip to Camp Cooville?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Would you recommend The Golden State? For what purposes would you recommend The Golden State, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?
Essay Topic 2
When is The Golden State most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 3
Identify the most important plot points in The Golden State. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?
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