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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 is the name of the person that Meredith was trying to contact in Chapter 4?

2. Who directs the stage lighting?

3. Who gets Stella an audition with the local repertory theater?

4. Who walks across the stage and looks out into the empty seats at the beginning of the book?

5. Who is in charge of Geoffrey and Stella?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Stella do to prepare for her auditions?

2. What happens when Stella first arrives at the theater?

3. What special directions does Meredith give Stella at the rehearsal in Chapter 4?

4. What does Meredith ask Stella when she hands him his sandwich?

5. When do the actors have access to the stage and what is wrong with it?

6. Why does Uncle Vernon not go to Stella's audition?

7. Give a brief description of Geoffrey.

8. Who are the two men departing the theater as Stella arrives and where are they going?

9. How does Stella try to defend herself to Meredith at the beginning of the book?

10. What happens with Stella at rehearsals, as seen in Chapter 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tell of the ways that Stella lets the reader know that she feels unworthy and undeserving of anything good.

Essay Topic 2

Describe how a bath is drawn at the point in time of the novel in Liverpool. The author goes to great lengths to describe how this process was extremely hard work compared to modern day baths where you just turn on the water. How does the author taking time out to address this help the reader become part of the time period and setting of the book?

Essay Topic 3

How was Stella's buried past being brought to light through her experiences in the theater? Cite specific examples from the book.

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