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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 “chevry”?

2. After how many weeks in the institution does Dodo first see Son of Man?

3. What kind of car does Fatty drive?

4. For whom had Paper and Miggy worked together?

5. At what time does Fatty deliver Paper to Hemlock Row?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dodo assume Chona, Nate, and Addie are angry with him?

2. How does Dodo’s deafness help him communicate with Monkey Pants?

3. Why does Monkey Pants’s marble inspire hope in Dodo?

4. What is the tension surrounding the Afro-Cubans, and how is it resolved?

5. For what is the site of the local Memorial Day festivities usually used?

6. How does Pia gather gossip to pass along to her friends?

7. When does Nate note having heard the South Carolina State marching band?

8. What injuries did Dodo sustain in being apprehended?

9. What ideas does Fatty consider and reject for getting Nate out of his establishment?

10. Why does Gus dislike Doc?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Much is made in the novel of the difference between the rural and the urban. Does the novel privilege one over the other? If so, how and to what effect? If not, how not and to what effect?

Essay Topic 2

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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