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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. In Part 1, III, what type of shop does the narrator say that she and other kids lived above with Mrs. Mack?

2. In Part 1, Chapter 8, who does Pippa discover that the woman is in the photograph Elodie found?

3. In Part 2, Chapter 10, how old was Ada when she was left at Lucy Radcliffe's school?

4. In Part 2, VI, how often would Jeremiah collect money from Mrs. Mack to be forwarded to Birdie's father?

5. In Part 1, Chapter 7, how long did Tip live with Lauren's family when she was young?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part 2, V, why is Jack Rolands at Birchwood Manor?

2. In Part 1, II, what does the narrator say about visitors?

3. In Part 1, III, what is learned about the narrator's history?

4. In Part 1, Chapter 2, who was Elodie's mother, and how did she die?

5. What happened in Part 1: I, that made Edward and everyone but the narrator leave Birchwood Manor?

6. In Part 1, Chapter 1, how did Pippa and Elodie become friends?

7. In Part 1, Chapter 5, what is Elodie's flat like?

8. In Part 2, Chapter 17, when and why did Lucy Radcliffe's school close?

9. In Part 1, Chapter 7, what is Columbia Road like?

10. In Part 2, Chapter 11, what was the Natural History Society at Miss Radcliffe's school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Characters experience abandonment in the novel. Birdie was abandoned when her mother and then her father died. How does feeling abandoned affect Birdie and Elodie? In what way was Edward also abandoned? What abandonment did Ada experience? How do these experiences of abandonment affect characters? How does it draw some characters together? How does being abandoned affect characters and the relationships they have in life?

Essay Topic 2

Birdie and Elodie are not in the upper echelons of society. Who was Birdie’s mother? What class was her father? What social class would the family have been considered? How did Birdie’s social class change after she went to live with Mrs. Mack? What does Elodie’s father do? What is her occupation? What is her social status compared to Alastair’s? What is revealed about class structure through the two women?

Essay Topic 3

In the novel, Morton mentions people, places, and things that actually existed. What are some real people, places, and things that Morton uses in the novel? Does she adapt some of these things to fit with the story? How does the novel imitate life through the use of real people, places, and things?

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