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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. At the end of Chapter 1, where does Tony have lunch?
2. In Chapter 8, for whom does Charis mistake her daughter Augusta when she appears unexpectedly at Charis's back door?
3. In Chapter 7, what does Charis's pendulum do when she asks it if she will have a good day?
4. In the first line of the book, when does the narrator say the story of Zenia ought to begin?
5. In Chapter 2, who is still in Tony's life "Despite everything, despite Zenia"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Were Tony's parents happily married?
2. If Zenia is such bad business, why does Tony want to unravel the knot of Zenia and tell her story?
3. What is Charis's relationship with her daughter, Augusta?
4. Explain the significance of Tony's lace-edged collars being mentioned in Chapter 1 alongside a mention of Tony's interest in wars.
5. Explain why Tony feels insecure about West after learning Zenia is still alive.
6. Explain the black enamel paint in Zenia and West's apartment in Chapter 19.
7. What information is revealed about Tony in Chapter 1?
8. Describe Tony's sand table and the game she plays on it.
9. In Chapter 1, who is the antagonist of the story and what helps identify that character as the villain?
10. In Chapter 1, what does Tony teacher her students that history is?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Color is used as a symbol throughout "The Robber Bride." Discuss what each of the following examples of color as symbol represents and what they indicate about the characters who experience them: Roz's white bedroom, Zenia's black enamel apartment, the blue aura around Roz's grandmother and the red aura around Zenia at the Toxique.
Essay Topic 2
Zenia has affairs with three men in "The Robber Bride" and gets each of her lovers to leave his wife/girlfriend for her. Compare and contrast Zenia's relationships with West, Billy, and Mitch. Do you think she loved any of them? Which man do you think Zenia loved or wanted most? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 3
Several suicides and two attempted suicides occur in "The Robber Bride." Discuss Roz's attempted suicide, Charis's attempted suicide, and the suicides of Tony's father, Griff, and Roz's husband, Mitch. What motivated each of them, and what theme(s) or lesson(s) do you think the author is trying to convey through these incidents? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
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