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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. How does the narrator describe Mr. Grace the first time he sees him?

2. Where does the narrator say he hid with Mrs. Grace while playing a game at the picnic?

3. In the narrator's dream in "Section 1: Part 2", where does he travel?

4. When the narrator remembers vacationing with his family in "Section 1: Part 2", what troubled his mother?

5. How does the narrator feel during his dream in "Section 1: Part 2"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrator's life like at The Cedars?

2. In "Section 1: Part 3", what does the narrator say about the impact of Anna's death on him?

3. How does the narrator say he felt after meeting Avril?

4. What does the narrator say about the gods in "Section 1: Part 1"?

5. What does the narrator say about place at the end of "Section 1: Part 6"?

6. How does the narrator describe the first time he met Chloe Grace?

7. What does the narrator say happened after he saw Mrs. Grace's crotch at the picnic?

8. In "Section 1: Part 4", how does the narrator describe human sorrow?

9. How does the narrator remember his mother reacting when he told her he wanted to go to a picnic with the Grace family?

10. When the narrator first met Chloe, what was his own family doing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the effect of keeping it a secret until the end that Miss Vavasour is actually Rose. How does this affect the development of Miss Vavasour's character?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the reliability of this narrator. Why is narrator reliability important?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the use of shifting tenses in this novel. Is it effective? How or how not? Is it distracting? How or how not? Why might the author have the narrator tell his stories in this way?

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