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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. The townspeople featured in the epigraph of Weather: A Novel declare themselves to be what entities?
2. Lizzie spends an hour reading about the dwindling numbers of what types of creatures?
3. What was Catherine's drug of choice before she got sober?
4. Lizzie reports that Eli's elementary school is made up of ten percent white children. What term does she use to describe most of the rest of the students there?
5. Lizzie has been trying for some time to get a hole in the fence around what location fixed?
Short Essay Questions
1. What new development occurs in Henry's life in Chapter One?
2. What does the moth from Madagascar symbolize and why?
3. What is Hell and High Water and how does Lizzie get involved with it?
4. Discuss the demographics of Eli's school and how Lizzie feels about them.
5. Who is Sylvia?
6. Where does Henry go when he loses his apartment in Chapter One?
7. What is the significance of Sylvia's explanation of the human response to applause in Chapter Two?
8. Describe Sylvia's penchant for visiting sites with particular qualities.
9. Describe the protagonist's immediate family as depicted in Chapter One of Weather: A Novel.
10. What act of altruism does Lizzie fondly remember from the night she gave birth to Eli?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Look carefully at the passages of Weather: A Novel that describe the close relationship between Lizzie and her husband Ben. What is Offill’s purpose for discussing at length the nature of the connection that has been forged within their marriage?
Essay Topic 2
What is the function of Eli’s character within the novel? Discuss the characterization methods used by Offill in depicting Eli and include in your discussion the reasons that Offill portrays Lizzie’s son in these particular ways.
Essay Topic 3
Sensory details are used frequently by Offill in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of Weather: A Novel. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Offill’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
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