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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. Who sprains an ankle at the football match?

2. Which actor is missing at the first performance in Chapter 11?

3. What does O'Hara do the second day that he's in Liverpool?

4. What kind of background does Bunny come from?

5. Why does Stella miss a rehearsal after going on an errand with Geoffrey?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Stella feel about going to the after-party?

2. How does Stella feel after upsetting Lily and what does she do about it?

3. What does Stella learn about Meredith and Bunny's true backgrounds?

4. What does Stella say that she does to practice for bad situations?

5. Why does Dawn give Bunny an envelope at the train station?

6. Why does Stella not wear the coat that Lily got her?

7. Where does Uncle Vernon get invited to three days before Christmas, and who invites him?

8. What two injuries occur during the football match?

9. What does Geoffrey say to Meredith at the after-party regarding how he is feeling about their relationship?

10. What new production in Chapter 6 is the theater going to be putting on, and what role was Stella given?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Meredith is explaining Caesar and Cleopatra to Stella, what is he truly explaining to her? What characters in the book are playing the specific roles in Caesar and Cleopatra in Meredith's version?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

For most of the book Stella has not been a particularly sympathetic protagonist. At what point does this change for the reader and does the reader's heart go out to the emotionally damaged young woman? What causes this change?

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