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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 is the name of the evangelist's daughter?

2. What is Emily trying to do in her story?

3. What is inside the package that Mrs. Ramsey received?

4. Who took Daisy and her sister in when their parents died?

5. What is Mrs. Ramsey's reaction to the package's contents?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the woman on her way to church want to pray for?

2. How does the government play a role in "A Summer Day"?

3. What is the gift that Arthur sends to his grandmother? How does it affect her?

4. Is the abuse against Hannah indirect or direct? How?

5. What is the community reaction to Emily getting the evangelists kicked out of town, and why?

6. What do Polly's actions after she learns that her fiance has died represent?

7. How is anonymity a theme in "The Philosophy Lesson"?

8. How is Hannah used as a tool between her parents?

9. Compare Emily to Lottie.

10. What does Angelica believe her purpose in life is?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role do social groups and social situations play in the short stories?

Essay Topic 2

What story is the most haunting or resounding? Why?

Essay Topic 3

What kind of a role does Stafford apply realism to in her short stories?

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