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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 does Benny have trouble finding out about?
2. Why can't Benny accept Eve's invitation to stay overnight with her?
3. What does Benny do as she and Jack Foley walk through Knockglen?
4. Who does Mother Francis compel to take her to Dublin?
5. What is Aidan's joke that does not amuse Eve?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the meeting of Jack, Benny, and Nan at the hospital.
2. How does Jack learn what happened in the accident?
3. Why is Nan not really interested in the boys from school?
4. What is Nan's comment when Benny cannot stay for Frank's funeral and has to take the bus back home?
5. What surprise awaits Benny when she goes to meet Jack?
6. What is Nan's activity at the dance?
7. Why does Dr. Foley ask his son Jack to drive him to Knockglen?
8. How is Eve's character established early on in the novel?
9. How does Benny reprimand her father for sending Sean to bring her home?
10. Explain Kit Hegarty's fear about her only son.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on How Adults and their Biases Can Ruin the Lives of Children. Begin with Eve and the absurdity of her grandparents to refuse to take her in after her parents died because her father had been Catholic. Demonstrate how their behavior made Eve bitter and hurt her deeply without any fault of her own. Next deal with Heather who was taken in after her parents were killed only to suffer almost the same treatment that Eve had. Heather wants to attend Mother Francis' school but runs into the objection that it is a Catholic school. Simon and his grandfather want to send her to a boarding school she hates. conclude with a generality about how many different things adults do may make a child's life miserable.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on the value of Loyalty Among Friends. Divide the essay into three main points--the need for friends; the effects of disloyalty among friends; and what is gained by being loyal to a friend.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on Heather as Hope for the Future. Binchy uses the child Heather to take aim at religious prejudice. (1) Show how Heather is unaffected by the Protestant/Catholic labels as she develops a relationship with Eve; (2) Discuss how Heather adapts to Mother Francis' school in preference to the boarding school in Dublin; (3) Mention Heather's enjoyment and excitement over being in the Easter pageant at St. Mary's. Evaluate how well Binchy is saying that people of all religions can live comfortably together.
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