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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 Stella say to achieve an audience for her audition?

2. Why does Stella not remove her coat at the cafe?

3. Who is concerned about the Board?

4. How does Stella view Meredith's stature?

5. What does Stella say about her experience in the theater?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Meredith, Bunny, and Stella go for tea and what happens when they get there?

2. Why does Meredith bring up the note?

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

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

5. What does Stella do when arriving home from her date with Geoffrey?

6. How does Uncle Vernon feel about not going to Stella's audition?

7. What does the book say that Meredith intends to write to Hilary?

8. What is Meredith doing at the beginning of Chapter 4?

9. What response does Meredith receive from the people at the cafe?

10. What is the relationship between Stella and Geoffrey?

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

Stella remains unattached and unemotional about most major events in her life. Cite specific examples from the book that tell of these events.

Essay Topic 3

It is foreshadowed many times in the book that Stella is O'Hara's daughter. The author foreshadows it in things that Stella says and does and also in things that O'Hara says and does. Tell all of the ways that it is foreshadowed that Stella is O'Hara's daughter.

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