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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 did the man swing his arms as he bustled along the pavement and moved around the other pedestrians?

2. How did the man move after leaving the mother and daughter?

3. Who did mother think the man might have been?

4. What did the old man do when the mother gave him the money?

5. What did the mother tell her daughter would happen if she was evaluating a person and did not rush?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the daughter observe about her mother as she thought about the old man's offer?

2. What type of look did the girl give her mother as her mother reached for the clasp of her purse?

3. How did the old man tell the mother and daughter that he got to town?

4. Why did the mother decide the man was up to something when she and her daughter watched him scurry away?

5. Why did the old man not walk home?

6. What did the old man say about the umbrella as the mother thought about giving him a pound for it?

7. What did the old man say when the mother offered to give him the taxi fare?

8. What did the mother tell the man before she gave him any money?

9. What happened when the mother gave the old man a pound note?

10. What did the mother say when the daughter asked why she was so horrid to the old man in the beginning?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a story. What is the point of view in the story? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 2

The mother and daughter observe the old man drinking whiskey in a pub. How important does drinking whiskey seem to be to the old man? Does he seem to be addicted to alcohol?

Essay Topic 3

The mother uses the incident with the old man to teach her daughter a lesson. What lesson does the mother attempt to teach her daughter? How does the mother seem to take her duties as a mother seriously? What do her actions reveal about motherhood and her desire to care for her daughter?

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