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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. Daisy has a heart attack and subsequent failure of what?

2. Chapter 6 is composed of letters to whom?

3. Daisy envisions her final words as what?

4. What is Daisy's group known as?

5. What is the title of chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Daisy seem comfortable with her life when she is in her early 70s?

2. Which of Daisy's children comes to care for her, in chapter nine, and is that unusual?

3. Describe how Alice decides to change the course of her life, in chapter seven, and what theme it continues.

4. What seemingly strange behavior does Cuyler exhibit on the day of his death?

5. In what positive way is the image of stone used in chapter eight?

6. Why do you think Daisy changed her mind and took Beverly in?

7. In chapter nine, it seems like everyone is married and has children. What is the symbolism of that?

8. How does Daisy handle both her husband's and her father's deaths?

9. Describe the change of focus in chapter six.

10. In what negative way is the image of stone used in chapter eight?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1: Choose and explain in detail at least three places in the story where stone was used to symbolize something positive.

Part 2: Choose and explain in detail at least three places in the story where stone was used to symbolize something negative.

Part 3: What do you think the author was trying to accomplish by using the over all symbolism of stone throughout the story?

Essay Topic 2

There are several relationships between couples in the story. However, each one seems to be somewhat dysfunctional.

Part 1. Choose any couple in the story and describe their relationship and the problems with it.

Part 2. Describe what you would to to correct the problems if you were part of that couple.

Part 3. Explain whether or not you think that some conflict is actually good in a relationship and why or why not.

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the following themes in the book and describe, in detail, at least three instances where the theme occurs in the book and what the results of those occurrences were. Also, explain how you think the book would have been different if each of those instances didn't occur.

Marriage

Death

Abandonment

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