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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. How does the novel gloss the term “turn”?

2. Which Psalm does Malachi quote to Moshe?

3. How does the novel gloss the term “twart”?

4. Of which of the following does Malachi’s challah taste?

5. On what street does Paper live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why, per Moshe, is marriage complicated for new Jewish immigrants to America?

2. Why did Moshe have trouble advertising his first major show?

3. To what does Chona ascribe her and Moshe’s commercial success?

4. What story about his family does Moshe tell to keep his audience amused as they await a show?

5. How do local officials respond to Moshe integrating his theatre?

6. How does Isaac stereotype Bulgarians?

7. How do the people of Chicken Hill regard the devastation of Hurricane Agnes?

8. Why does Paper not work as a maid?

9. What rumor surrounds Norman Skrupskelis?

10. What does Nate use as a euphemism for his sister-in-law’s death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The narrative pattern of the novel is marked by asides. What effect do those asides have on the novel, and how is that effect achieved?

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