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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 two things does McQuaid compliment as he sits with Moran?

2. What topic threatens to sour the mood of Moran?

3. What is the relationship between Rose and Moran?

4. After what event does Moran have trouble adjusting?

5. What word best describes Rose's mothers feelings about the marriage?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relationship between Moran and McQuaid.

2. Describe the relationship between Rose and Moran's children.

3. Why does Moran speak so highly about the war?

4. Explain Rose's role in the Moran family.

5. What does Moran realize as McQuaid leaves the house?

6. Describe McQuaid's language towards his wife.

7. What is the importance of the ritual of the Rosary?

8. What conclusion does Moran come to about Rose Brady?

9. Why does Rose stop going to the evening mail group?

10. Name one way in that Moran and Rose are very different.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Amongst Women focuses heavily on a few male characters, but it is their interactions with women that make for the most interesting parts of the novel. The female characters evolve quite a bit throughout the novel. Discuss the change the female characters go through. Describe their role at the beginning and compare it to their role at the end. How is it different? Why did it change?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss what you think the moral of the novel might be?

1. Support your analysis with examples from the novel.

2. Make sure to look at both what the reader can glean from the novel as well as what the characters in the story might have learned.

Essay Topic 3

Explain how irony was used in the novel to create sympathy for certain characters as well as how it was used to develop certain characters. Discuss how irony helped develop your opinion of Moran in particular.

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