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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 Dolores' mother name her parakeet?

2. When Dolores was a baby, what did her Uncle Eddie call her?

3. Why does Dolores' grandmother refer to the Pysyk twins as "displaced persons"?

4. What had Larry's wife, Rita, wanted to name their baby?

5. In the college entrance essay that Dolores' mother writes for her, who does she write about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the family of the man who hit Dolores' mother send to Dolores and why?

2. How does Dante act towards Dolores while at her Grandmother's house?

3. Why does Dante say that he doesn't want to have children?

4. Why does Dolores want Domingo to invite her to eat with his family so badly?

5. What do Dolores, her mother and her grandmother think of Jack and Rita Speight?

6. What does her Etch-a-Sketching mean to Dolores?

7. How does Dolores initially deal with her father's disappearance?

8. What does Dolores think about the religious paraphernalia hanging from Domingos' rear view mirror?

9. What evidence is shown that the relationship between Dolores and her grandmother is growing closer after her father abandons the family?

10. How does Dolores react to her first class at community college?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the rape that Dolores suffers influence her actions later in life?

Essay Topic 2

What role does television have on Dolores' life?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Dolores' close female relationships (Jeanette, Kippy, Dottie, etc.) and determine how these relationships aid or hinder Dolores' development as an adult.

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