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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. Lizzie describes her texts with which character as "scrupulously chaste" (185)?
2. Lizzie enjoys the fact that Will does not mind if she talks endlessly about what subject?
3. At the end of Chapter Three, Lizzie thinks of people who secretly keep what types of creatures in their small apartments, sometimes for years, or even decades?
4. Lizzie feels compelled to keep searching for what ultimate goal for her family?
5. Ben and Eli go on a road trip to the California coast with the family of which character?
Short Essay Questions
1. What detail does Henry share with Lizzie in Chapter Four that compels her to go to Ben with her concerns?
2. For what reason does Offill allude to C.S. Lewis's novel Prince Caspian in Chapter Four?
3. Explain the significance of Lizzie's claim at the end of Chapter Four that she has "so many people" (192).
4. Discuss an instance when Offill uses a literary device to illustrate some aspect of the sibling relationship between Ben and Lizzie.
5. In what kind of dwelling do Ben and Catherine live and what is the significance of this fact?
6. Describe the therapeutic exercises that Margot prescribes for Henry.
7. What problem does Henry share with Lizzie in Chapter Three?
8. What purpose does Offill have in mind when including the detail that Catherine always gets home from work at seven in the evening?
9. What solution does Lizzie devise in response to Henry's problem, as revealed in Chapter Six?
10. For what reason does Lizzie begin to skip meditation classes with Margot?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Offill’s novel Weather: A Novel. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the role of addiction with Offill's text Weather: A Novel. What messages are being sent about the nature of addiction and what response does the text intend to provoke from its audience?
Essay Topic 3
Offill begins the text with an excerpt from a 17th-century town meeting in a small Connecticut settlement. Explain how this poem excerpt relates to Weather: A Novel and how it reflects the text’s themes.
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