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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. Why does Lynette tell Cody to get out of her car in Chapter 13?

2. How old is Gloria?

3. How does Kansas open the safe?

4. What does Lynette do with the photographs JJ gave her?

5. What is Gloria wearing when she opens the door in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kansas say he will kill Lynette?

2. What is the nature of Lynette’s first explosion at Jack?

3. How did Lynette see Kenny after she ran away from home?

4. What is Gloria’s physical appearance like?

5. How does Cody have $7,000 for the Mercedes?

6. Why does Lynette cry when she thinks of her grandfather?

7. What is the thin blond man’s seizure like?

8. What was Lynette’s experience like being robbed?

9. How did Lynette’s grandfather treat her?

10. Why has Cody not bought a car if he has the money for it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In addition to working two low-wage jobs, Lynette has taken to sex work to help her save the money she needs to buy the house. Lynette’s first client treats her well but refuses to continue seeing her after she reveals personal information to him. Write an essay about the relationship between Lynette and her first client.

Essay Topic 2

Lynette’s encounter with Kansas is a pivotal moment at which her desperation for money begins to endanger her life. Kansas refuses to accept her offer for opening the safe and insists on its contents instead, threatening to kill her in the process. Write an essay analyzing the character of Kansas and what his role is the novel is.

Essay Topic 3

One of the more heartbreaking relationships in the novel is that between Lynette and her father. Her father admits that he is doing well and yet has abandoned his original family and refuses to support them all while maintaining a connection with his first daughter but not with his only, disabled son. Write an essay about the relationship between Lynette and her father and the role of that relationship in the novel.

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