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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. Where did Jonathan see contempt coming from, which made him want to leave the Met?
2. What is the spread in debate?
3. How does the narrator say Darren sees life?
4. Where is Ziegler carted away to, at the end of the story?
5. What does the narrator say Darren would use to ward off insults?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Jonathan studying for his dissertation?
2. How does Jane say Sima was different from the other therapists at the Foundation?
3. How does the narrator characterize Adam’s role in the debate team?
4. What are the kinds of things Darren finds and puts in his pockets and gauges his identity by?
5. What was the super power Darren believed he had?
6. How does the narrator’s perspective shift as he describes Adam’s return to shore and the process of reuniting with Amber?
7. How does the narrator say that Darren uses chants?
8. What importance did Jonathan’s therapist attach to his interest in the Ziegler story?
9. What happens in the Herman Hesse story Jonathan talks about?
10. How does Jonathan explain his success at the Foundation?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How are gender role differences represented in The Topeka School? How are men and women represented, and how do the characters understand the differences between the men’s work and women’s work? How does the author shed light on these terms, or throw them into question?
Essay Topic 2
Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?
Essay Topic 3
In what way is The Topeka School a bildungsroman (or kunstlerroman)? What are the stages of maturation it narrates? How does the novel draw a distinction between developmental stages, and how does it move characters from one stage to another?
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