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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 is the piano player?

2. How does Stella feel after seeing tears in Lily's eyes?

3. Who teases Geoffrey from the company?

4. How does the opening go for the new play in Chapter 6?

5. What does Stella wear in Chapter 11 that is new?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What new job has Meredith given Stella in Chapter 6, and what is so funny about it?

4. What is happening with Richard during the rehearsals in Chapter 7 for the third play of the book?

5. What impact on the production has O'Hara made playing his role in the play?

6. What is Stella's new role for the third play put on in the book?

7. What has happened since Hilary received Meredith's telegram?

8. What is the third production in the book that the company will put on, and who will play the lead?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Uncle Vernon understands Stella better then anyone else in the book. Write about the ways that only Uncle Vernon understands Stella. Use specific examples from the book to support your answers.

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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