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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. Who is Richard Finkel?

2. What animal does Rachel compare Thelma with when she is at the group therapy meeting?

3. What does the mugger take from Rachel?

4. What time did Rachel tell Mark that she heard something while cooking at her Washington home?

5. Who is Eleanor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Rachel and Mark's early relationship like?

2. How does Rachel feel about going back to her therapy group?

3. What are some of the details Rachel gives Detective Nolan about the robber?

4. Describe Vera's physical appearance.

5. What were Mark and Thelma doing the day that Thelma wrote an inscription in a child's song book to signify the importance of the day?

6. What caused Rachel to break up with Mark?

7. Why does Jonathan visit Rachel in New York City?

8. What happens when Rachel's producer hires her a voice coach?

9. How did Rachel get a cooking show on television?

10. Why does Harry order a lot of stationery?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the setting of New York City and its influence on Rachel. How does the city offer Rachel more possibilities? When she returns to New York, what support system does she have there? What does she like about the specialty shops in New York?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Rachel's success as a cook and food writer. What makes her television show a success? Why do readers find Rachel's writing so appealing?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Rachel's parents and their influence in her life. What kind of role models are they? Does she wish she could share this experience with her mother? How does her father attempt to comfort her? In what way have both her parents failed her?

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