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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. As what is Fatty’s cousin Gene employed?

2. At what time are the inhabitants of the ward where Dodo is held put to bed?

3. What interest rate is Gus charged?

4. Whom does Fatty see fight a Lowgod?

5. What is Dodo’s favorite hymn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the dominant occupation of the women of Chicken Hill?

2. Why does Dodo assign Monkey Pants his sobriquet?

3. What is the general shape of Pottstown’s Memorial Day festivities?

4. Why does Fatty absent himself from Chona’s funeral?

5. What injuries did Dodo sustain in being apprehended?

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

7. Why does Doc dislike Gus?

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

9. How does Moshe pack the pants he returns to Malachi?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What character is the protagonist of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store? How does the novel support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

Overall, what is the most important theme of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The novel comments repeatedly on the South, despite taking place in what is clearly the North. How is the South figured in the novel? What effect on the reader does that figuration have? How is it produced?

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