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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 does McQuaid find overbearing about Moran's personality?

2. Why does Rose stop going to the post office?

3. How does Moran know McQuaid?

4. What is the name of the farm that Moran and Rose live on?

5. What is the relationship between Rose and Moran?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the girls try so desperately to move Moran's attention away from Luke?

2. Why is Moran angry that more than half his children left Ireland to work in England?

3. How does McQuaid compliment Moran's daughters during his visit?

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

5. How does Moran justify his resentment towards McQuaid?

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

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

8. What is the girls' plan for making their father feel better?

9. In Section 1, what seems to foreshadow a change of power between the family members?

10. What was Rose's first impression of Moran?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The setting of Amongst Women plays a big role in the story itself. Describe the setting, both historically and geographically, and explain why it is so important to the novel and the development of the characters. Use examples from the novel to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

McQuaid played a big role in Moran's life even though he was only a minor character in the book.

1. Discuss what McQuaid might have represented to Moran and support your answer with examples from the novel.

2. Do you think Moran deciding to end his friendship with McQuaid was the right thing to do? Why or why not?

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