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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 scares Hope about her baby?

2. What is Blandine worried about?

3. Who killed the fish in “My First Was a Fish”?

4. What does Tiffany hear James play?

5. What does Blandine become when she exits her body at the beginning of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the days following “the Night,” what does James stop doing?

2. In “Hear Me Out,” when did Todd’s and Malik’s animal sacrificing start?

3. What is in the bag that Blandine leaves the house with?

4. In “My First Was a Fish," what did the fish’s death convince Jack of?

5. What does the name Blandine stand for to Tiffany?

6. When James drives Tiffany home, what happens?

7. Why does Joan's boss scold her?

8. What does Tiffany hear James play?

9. Why is Tiffany enraged in “Variables”?

10. How do Tiffany and James know each other?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do a close reading of Joan’s character. How does her transformation throughout the novel speak to Gunty’s larger point of intersecting lives at The Rabbit Hutch?

Essay Topic 2

How does Blandine use economic structures in order to understand dynamic relationships?

Essay Topic 3

Why does the author divide the chapters into passages rendering each tenant of the Rabbit Hutch in their individual spaces?

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